Capitan and Kapitan are equivalents of the English Captain in other European languages.

Capitan, Capitano, and Kapitan may also refer to:

• Capitan, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
• Capitan, New Mexico, a village
• Capitan Mountains, New Mexico

• George Kapitan, who wrote for Timely in the Golden Age of Comic Books.
• Tomis Kapitan, an American philosopher and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University.

• Der Kapitän or The Captain (film), a 1971 German comedy
• Der Kapitän (TV series), a German series
• Le Capitan, a novel by Michel Zevaco

• Kapitän, a shortened version of several ranks in the German navy
• Kapitan, another name for Opperhoofd, a Dutch colonial governor
• Opel Kapitän, a luxury car manufactured from 1938 to 1970
• Capitan (tequila), a brand of tequila produced by Barton Brands
• Capitan Records, a record label set up by American musician Chris Brokaw
• Capitán, a dog of Villa Carlos Paz who has spent six years in vigil at the grave of his master

• Barangay captain, usually referred in the Philippines as "kapitan"
• Capoten, a drug used for the treatment of hypertension
• El Capitan (disambiguation)
• Kapitan Arab, a Dutch East Indies title for the representative of Arab enclave
• Kapitan Cina or Capitan China, an originally Portuguese title for the representative of a Chinese enclave
• Kapitan Keling, a representative of an Indian community
• Kapudan Pasha, the admiral of the navy of the Ottoman Empire
• Katepano, a senior Byzantine military rank and office