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Literature

* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine * ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker * ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty


Music

* Director (band), an Irish rock band * ''Director'' (Avant album) (2006) * ''Director'' (Yonatan Gat album)


Occupations and positions


Arts and design

* Animation director * Artistic director *
Creative director A creative director is a person who makes high-level creative decisions; oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos; and directs and translates the creative people who produce the end results. Creat ...
* Design director *
Film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
* Music director * Music video director * Television director * Theatre director


Positions in other fields

* Director (business), a senior-level management position * Director (colonial), head of chartered company's colonial administration for a territory *
Director (education) Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia. The academic ra ...
, head of a university or other educational body * Company director, a member of (for example) a board of directors * Cruise director * Executive director, senior operating officer or manager of an organization or corporation, usually at a nonprofit *
Finance director A chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances; i.a.: financial planning, management of financial risks, ...
or chief financial officer *
Funeral director A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licenses in funeral arranging and embalming (or preparation of the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks o ...
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Managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...
* Non-executive director *
Technical director A technical director (TD) is usually a senior technical person within e.g. a software company, engineering firm, film studio, theatre company or television studio. They are responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the technical aspect ...
*
Tournament director A tournament director (TD) is an official at a competitive sporting or gaming event, who typically perform a number of key functions. The extent of the tournament director's duties varies depending on the size of the tournament, the nature of the ...


Science and technology

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Director (military) A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct the weapon firing crew. ...
, a device that continuously calculates firing data * ''
Adobe Director Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks) was a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia and managed by Adobe Systems until its discontinuation. Director was the primary ed ...
'', multimedia authoring software *
Fibre Channel director In the computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is the core component of a storage area network (SAN). The fa ...
, a large switch for computer storage networks *
Director telephone system The director telephone system was a development of the Strowger or step-by-step (SXS) switching system used in London and five other large cities in the UK from the 1920s to the 1980s. A large proportion (c. 70% to 80%) of telephone traffic in ...
, or Director exchange * GCR Class 11E or Directors, a class of locomotive * Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of
liquid crystal Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as i ...


Other uses

* ''Director'' (1969 film), a Soviet film directed by Alexey Saltykov * ''Director'' (2009 film), an American film directed by Aleks Rosenberg * The Director, an artificial intelligence system in the video game '' Left 4 Dead'' * HMS ''Director'' (1784), a ship of the British Royal Navy * Directors beer, by Courage Brewery


People with the surname

* Aaron Director (1901–2004), professor at the University of Chicago Law School * Kim Director (born 1974), American actress


See also

* Deputy Director (disambiguation) * '' Directeur sportif'', a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event * Director-general * Director string, a way of tracking free variables in computation *
French Directory The Directory (also called Directorate; ) was the system of government established by the Constitution of the Year III, French Constitution of 1795. It takes its name from the committee of 5 men vested with executive power. The Directory gov ...
, the executive committee of the French Revolutionary government between 1795 and 1799 {{disambiguation, surname