Howard Hawks - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Howard Winchester Hawks in Goshen, Indiana, 30 May 1896.
Todd Haynes - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Los Angeles, California, 2 January 1961.
Iosif Heifitz - Director
Nationality: Russian. Born: Iosif Yefimovitch Heifitz (sometimes transliterated as Josef Kheifits) in Minsk, Russia, 17 December 1905.
Astrid Henning-Jensen and Bjarne - Director
Nationality: Danish. Born: Frederiksberg, Denmark; Astrid (née Astrid Smahl): 10 December 1914; Bjarne: 6 October 1908.
Cecil Hepworth - Director
Nationality: British. Born: Lambeth, London, 19 March 1874.
Werner Herzog - Director
Nationality: German. Born: Werner Stipetic in Sachrang, 5 September 1942.
Walter Hill - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Long Beach, California, 10 January 1942.
Alfred Hitchcock - Director
Nationality: British. Born: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock in Leytonstone, London, 13 August 1899, became U.S.
Holger-Madsen - Director
Nationality: Danish. Born: Holger Madsen, 11 April 1878, began spelling name with hyphen, 1911.
Agnieszka Holland - Director
Nationality: Polish. Born: Warsaw, Poland, 28 November 1948.
Tobe Hooper - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Austin, Texas, 1946.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Director
Nationality: Taiwanese. Born: Hour Shiaw-shyan (name in pinyin, Hou Xiaoxian) in Meixian, Kuangtung (Canton) province, 8 April 1947; moved to Hualien, Taiwan, 1948.
Ron Howard - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Duncan, Oklahoma, 1 March 1954; son of Rance (an actor, writer, and director) and Jean (an actress; maiden name, Speegle) Howard.
Danièle Huillet - Director
John Huston - Director
Nationality: Irish/American. Born: John Marcellus Huston, son of actor Walter, in Nevada, Missouri, 5 August 1906, became Irish citizen, 1964.
Kon Ichikawa - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Uji Yamada in Ise, Mie Prefecture, 20 November 1915.
Tadashi Imai - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 8 January 1912.
Shohei Imamura - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 1926.
Rex Ingram - Director
Nationality: Irish/American. Born: Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, 15 January 1893.
Otar Ioseliani - Director
Nationality: Soviet Georgian. Born: 2 February 1934.
Juzo Itami - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto, May 15, 1933; the son of film director Mansaku Itami.
Joris Ivens - Director
Nationality: Dutch. Born: Georg Henri Anton Ivens in Nijmegen, Holland, 18 November 1898.
James Ivory - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Berkeley, California, 7 June 1928.
Peter Jackson - Director
Nationality: New Zealander. Born: Wellington, New Zealand, 30 October 1961.
Miklós Jancsó - Director
Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Vác, Hungary, 27 September 1921.
Derek Jarman - Director
Nationality: British. Born:Northwood, Middlesex, 31 January 1942.
Jim Jarmusch - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Akron, Ohio, 22 January 1953.
Humphrey Jennings - Director
Nationality: British. Born: Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings in Walberswick, Suffolk, 1907.
Norman Jewison - Director
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Toronto, Ontario, 21 July 1926.
Jaromil Jireš - Director
Nationality: Czech. Born: Bratislava, 10 December 1935.