F. Gary Gray is an American film director, film producer, and music video director. He is known for directing films such as Friday (1995), Set It Off (1996), The Negotiator (1998), The Italian Job (2003), Be Cool (2005), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Straight Outta Compton (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and Men in Black: International (2019). He was born in New York City in 1969.

Gray began his career as a music video director in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He directed videos for some of the biggest names in hip hop and R&B, including Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, TLC, and Outkast.

Gray made his feature film directorial debut with Friday in 1995. The film was a critical and commercial success, and it helped to launch the careers of actors Ice Cube and Chris Tucker.