This is a list of all captains of the Hawthorn Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League Men's and AFL Women's.

VFA/VFL/AFL

No. Name Season(s) Awards and Notes
1 Alf Gough 1914
2 Joe Larkin 1915
3 Len Gibb 1919
4 Ted Alley 1920
5 Frank Rigaldi 1920 Replaced Ted Alley after he left the club
6 Jim Jackson 1921
1925
7 Arthur Rademacher 1922
8 Bill Walton 1923–1924
9 Paddy Burke 1926
10 Dan Minogue 1926
11 Clarrie Lethlean 1927
12 Bert Sutton 1928
13 Albert Chadwick 1929
14 John Harris 1930–1931
15 Bert Mills 1932
1934
1938
1940–1941
16 Fred Phillips 1933 Died pre-season from blood poisoning.
17 Bill Twomey Sr. 1933 Replaced Fred Phillips after he died before the season started.
18 Ivan McAlpine 1935–1937
19 Len Thomas 1939
20 Jack Carmody 1942
21 Bob Williams 1943
22 Jim Bohan 1944
1946
23 Keith Shea 1945
24 Alec Albiston 1947–1949
25 Kevin Curran 1950–1951
26 Peter O'Donohue 1952
27 Ted Fletcher 1953–1954 Best and fairest (1953)
28 John Kennedy, Sr. 1955–1959
29 Graham Arthur 1960–1968 VFL premiership (1961)
Best and fairest (1962)
Co-captain with John Peck in 1965.
Most games played as captain (153)
30 John Peck 1965 Coleman Medal (1965)
Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1965)
Co-captain with Graham Arthur.
31 David Parkin 1969–1973 VFL premiership (1971)
32 Peter Crimmins 1974–1975
33 Don Scott 1976–1980 2× VFL premiership (1976, 1978)
34 Leigh Matthews 1981–1985 VFL premiership (1983)
VFLPA MVP award (1982)
Peter Crimmins Perpetual Memorial Medal (1982)
4× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
2× VFL Team of the Year (1982, 1983)
35 Michael Tuck 1986–1991 4× VFL/AFL premiership (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991)
VFLPA best captain (1986)
VFL Team of the year (1990)
36 Gary Ayres 1992–1993
37 Chris Langford 1994 All-Australian team (1994)
38 Jason Dunstall 1995–1998 3× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998)
39 Shane Crawford 1999–2004 Brownlow Medal (1999)
AFLPA MVP (1999)
2× All-Australian team (1999, 2002)
3× Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003)
40 Richie Vandenberg 2005–2007
41 Sam Mitchell 2008–2010 AFL premiership (2008)
Peter Crimmins Medal (2009)
42 Luke Hodge 2011–2016 3× AFL premiership (2013, 2014, 2015)
Norm Smith Medal (2014)
AFLPA best captain (2014)
43 Jarryd Roughead 2017–2018 Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017)
44 Ben Stratton 2019–2020
45 Ben McEvoy 2021–2022
46 James Sicily 2023– All-Australian team (2023)

AFL Women's

No. Name Season(s) Awards and Notes
1 Tilly Lucas-Rodd 2022 (S7)– Most games played as captain

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