Thomas Tew

Thomas Tew (died September 1695), the Rhode Island Pirate, was an English privateer turned pirate. From Bermuda he sailed the sloop Amity in 1692 and, with his crew's consent, turned pirate in the Red Sea, seizing a Mughal treasure ship and returning rich to Newport; he pioneered the route called the Pirate Round.

On a second cruise beginning in November 1694 he joined Henry Every at the Mandab Strait and was killed in September 1695 attacking a Mughal ship believed to be the Fateh Muhammed. He was later said to be a founder of the legendary pirate colony Libertalia.