The Most Famous

FILM DIRECTORS from Saudi Arabia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Saudi Arabian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Saudi Arabia. This makes Saudi Arabia the birth place of the 86th most number of Film Directors behind Uganda, and Chad.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Saudi Arabian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Saudi Arabian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Haifaa al-Mansour (b. 1974)

With an HPI of 43.07, Haifaa al-Mansour is the most famous Saudi Arabian Film Director.  Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Haifaa al-Mansour (Arabic: هيفاء المنصور Hayfā'a al-Manṣūr; born 10 August 1974) is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and one of the first female Saudi filmmakers.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Saudi Arabian film directors born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Saudi Arabian film directors include Haifaa al-Mansour.

Living Saudi Arabian Film Directors

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