One Direction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Direction#Niall_Horan One Direction are an English-Irish boy band, consisting of members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of British television singing competition