Director

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Director may refer to:

Society and culture

Business

• Company director, a member of a board of directors, a group of managers of a company
• Director (business), a senior level management position
• Director-general
• Executive director
• Finance director, or chief financial officer
• Funeral director, someone involved in the business of funeral rites
• Managing director
• Non-executive director
• Cruise director, officer responsible for on-board hospitality, entertainment and social events on a cruise ship

Arts and design

• Film director
• Theatre director
• Artistic director
• Music director
• Television director, a person who directs the activities involved in making a television episode
• 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
• Creative director, within the design, graphic design, film, music, fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries

Other roles

• Technical director, the most senior technical person within an IT company, theatrical company or a television/broadcasting studio
• Tournament director, for sporting events
• Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory
• Director (education), head of a university or other educational body

Science and technology

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

Other uses

• Director (album), an album by Avant
• The Director, a novel by Henry Denker
• Director (band), an Irish rock band from Malahide
• HMS Director (1784)
• Directors beer, by Courage Brewery
• The Director, a complex artificial intelligence system used in the video game Left 4 Dead
• Leading, one of the management processes, a.k.a. "Directing"

See also

• Aaron Director (1901–2004), professor at the University of Chicago Law School
• Deputy Director (disambiguation)
• Directeur sportif, a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event