Directors & filmmakers

Film and TV directors, producers, screenwriters, editors and animators. 21,681 people.

1Donald J. TrumpPresident of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)🇺🇸 USAborn 19462Ronald Reagan40th President of the United States (1981–1989)🇺🇸 USA1911–20043Nelson MandelaPresident of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)🇿🇦 ZAF1918–20134Charlie ChaplinEnglish actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)🇬🇧 GBR1889–19775Fyodor DostoyevskyRussian novelist (1821–1881)1821–18816Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman (1847–1931)🇺🇸 USA1847–19317Salvador DalíSpanish artist (1904–1989)🇪🇸 ESP1904–19898Rabindranath TagoreBengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)1861–19419Hans Christian AndersenDanish writer and poet (1805–1875)1805–187510Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model (1926–1962)🇺🇸 USA1926–196211Anton ChekhovRussian dramatist and author (1860–1904)1860–190412Steve JobsAmerican entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)🇺🇸 USA1955–201113Corbin BleuAmerican actor (born 1989)🇺🇸 USAborn 198914Oscar WildeIrish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)🇫🇷 FRA1854–190015Walt DisneyAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)🇺🇸 USA1901–196616Ernest HemingwayAmerican author and journalist (1899–1961)🇺🇸 USA1899–196117Gabriel García MárquezColombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)🇨🇴 COL1927–201418Jean-Paul SartreFrench existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)🇫🇷 FRA1905–198019Hillary ClintonAmerican politician and diplomat (born 1947)🇺🇸 USAborn 194720Jorge Luis BorgesArgentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)🇦🇷 ARG1899–198621Roald AmundsenNorwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)🇳🇴 NOR1872–192822Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer and poet (1865–1936)🇬🇧 GBR1865–193623Alfred HitchcockBritish filmmaker (1899–1980)🇬🇧 GBR1899–198024John LennonBritish musician (1940–1980)🇬🇧 GBR1940–198025Bob DylanAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1941)🇺🇸 USAborn 194126Arthur Conan DoyleBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)🇬🇧 GBR1859–193027J. K. RowlingEnglish author (born 1965)🇬🇧 GBRborn 196528Justin BieberCanadian singer-songwriter (born 1994)🇨🇦 CANborn 199429Andy WarholAmerican artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)🇺🇸 USA1928–198730KalidasaA classical Sanskrit writer widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist of ancient India.31Akira KurosawaJapanese filmmaker (1910–1998)🇯🇵 JPN1910–199832Selena GomezAmerican singer and actress (born 1992)🇺🇸 USAborn 199233Naguib MahfouzEgyptian writer (1911–2006)🇪🇬 EGY1911–200634Henrik IbsenNorwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)🇳🇴 NOR1828–190635Steven SpielbergAmerican filmmaker (born 1946)🇺🇸 USAborn 194636H. G. WellsEnglish writer (1866–1946)🇬🇧 GBR1866–194637Bruce LeeHong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)🇺🇸 USA1940–197338Thomas MannGerman novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)🇺🇸 USA1875–195539Isaac AsimovAmerican writer and biochemist (1920–1992)🇺🇸 USA1920–199240Jackie ChanHong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)🇨🇳 CHNborn 195441Federico FelliniItalian filmmaker (1920–1993)🇮🇹 ITA1920–199342Ingmar BergmanSwedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)🇸🇪 SWE1918–200743Murasaki ShikibuJapanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)🇯🇵 JPN970–110044Robin WilliamsAmerican actor and comedian (1951–2014)🇺🇸 USA1951–201445Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRussian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008) SUN1918–200846Stanley KubrickAmerican filmmaker (1928–1999)🇬🇧 GBR1928–199947T. S. EliotUS-British poet (1888–1965)🇬🇧 GBR1888–196548Marlon BrandoAmerican actor (1924–2004)🇺🇸 USA1924–200449Woody AllenAmerican filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)🇺🇸 USAborn 193550Scarlett JohanssonAmerican actress (born 1984)🇺🇸 USAborn 198451Bertolt BrechtGerman poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956) DDR1898–195652Arnold SchwarzeneggerAustrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)🇺🇸 USAborn 194753Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)🇮🇹 ITA1932–201654Vladimir NabokovRussian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)🇺🇸 USA1899–197755Jim MorrisonAmerican singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)🇺🇸 USA1943–197156Paul McCartneyEnglish musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)🇬🇧 GBRborn 194257Leonardo DiCaprioAmerican actor and producer (born 1974)🇺🇸 USAborn 197458John SteinbeckAmerican writer (1902–1968)🇺🇸 USA1902–196859Johnny DeppAmerican actor (born 1963)🇺🇸 USAborn 196360Brad PittAmerican actor (born 1963)🇺🇸 USAborn 1963