霍雷肖·霍恩布洛尔是塞西尔·史考特·福雷斯特（Cecil Scott Forester ）创作的十一部系列小说的主人公。这十一部系列小说描绘了拿破仑战争期间霍恩布洛尔在英国皇家海军的职业生涯。这些小说依照时间次序分列如下：

《快乐的返航》一书中描写了霍恩布洛尔是个数学老手，在依靠航位推测法导航的时代，他精确计算并完美地返航靠岸。尽管人们相信，在那种严重匮乏的情况下，肉体上的惩罚（被鞭打或罚进船底）是唯一维持纪律的方法；但他非常开明，反对采用肉体上的惩罚，在《霍恩布洛尔与急脾气》一书中，他设法让一个宣告有罪的船员逃脱了。虽然他几乎总是成功，但他仍然自认为缺乏阅历。他多少有些蔑视周围的人，包括他的妻子和好朋友布什船长，可他竭力掩饰他的蔑视。He ... and savages himself for failing to possess those qualities of theirs he sees as desirable.

Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and radio and television programs.

The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return (U.S. title Beat to Quarters) with the appearance of a junior Royal Navy captain on independent duty on a secret mission to Central America. Later stories filled out his earlier years, starting with an unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman. As the Napoleonic Wars progress, he gains promotion steadily as a result of his skill and daring, despite his initial poverty and lack of influential friends. After surviving many adventures in a wide variety of locales, he rises to the pinnacle of his profession, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet, knighted as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB), and named the 1st Baron Hornblower.