黑胡子（英语：Blackbeard），真名为爱德华·蒂奇（英语：Edward Teach，或Edward Thatch，1680年－1718年11月22日）生于英国布里斯托尔，是世界航海史上恶名昭彰的海盗之一，在西印度群岛及美洲殖民地东岸进行劫掠，其早年生活不可知，他可能在安妮女王战争期间成为私掠船上的水手，尔后可确定的是他定居在巴哈马群岛中的新普罗维登斯岛，且该岛是班杰明·霍尼戈尔德船长的基地之一，而在1716年左右，蒂奇加入班杰明的团队且被任命为一艘班杰明俘虏的单桅纵帆船的船长，他们劫掠了许多船只，更有两艘船加入他们的船队，其中一艘由史提德·波纳特指挥，但于隔年1717年，霍尼戈尔德金盆洗手不再私掠并将两艘船都带走了。

Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (c.1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. Although little is known about his early life, he was probably born in Bristol, England. Recent genealogical research indicates his family moved to Jamaica where Edward Thatch, Jr. is listed as being a mariner in the Royal Navy aboard the HMS Windsor in 1706. He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.