Director

Director may refer to:

Occupations and positions

• Leadership, in management, also called "directing"

Business and government

• Director (business), a senior level management position
• Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory
• Company director, a member of a board of directors, a group of managers of a company
• Cruise director, officer responsible for on-board hospitality, entertainment and social events on a cruise ship
• Executive director
• Finance director, or chief financial officer
• Funeral director, someone involved in the business of funeral rites
• Director-general
• Managing director
• Non-executive director
• Technical director, the most senior technical person within an IT company, theatrical company or a television/broadcasting studio
• French Directory, the executive committee of the French Revolutionary government between 1795 and 1799

Arts and design

• Artistic director
• Creative director, within the design, graphic design, film, music, fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries
• Film director
• Music director
• Music video director, a film director that specializes in supervising the filming and editing of music videos
• Sports director, an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department
• Television director, a person who directs the activities involved in making a television episode
• Theatre director

Other roles

• Director (education), head of a university or other educational body
• Tournament director, for sporting events

Arts and media

• Director (album), a 2006 album by Avant
• Director (band), an Irish rock band from Malahide
• Director (magazine), a British magazine published by the Institute of Directors
• Director (2009 film), directed by Aleks Rosenberg
• The Director (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
• The Director (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
• The Director, an artificial intelligence system in the video game Left 4 Dead

Individuals

• Aaron Director (1901–2004), professor at the University of Chicago Law School
• Kim Director, American actress

Science and technology

• Director (military), a device that continuously calculates firing data
• Adobe Director, multimedia authoring software
• Fibre Channel director, a large switch for computer storage networks
• Director string, a way of tracking free variables in computation
• Director telephone system, or Director exchange
• Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of liquid crystal
• Great Central Railway Class 11E locomotives and Class 11F locomotives, known as Directors and Improved Directors respectively

Other uses

• HMS Director (1784), a ship of the British Royal Navy
• Directors beer, by Courage Brewery

See also

• Deputy Director (disambiguation)
• Directeur sportif, a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event