Big Five
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Big Five may refer to:
Arts and entertainment[edit]
- Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK
- Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories
- Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras of the United States
- Big Five (Yu-Gi-Oh!), a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe
- Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood during its "Golden Age"
- The "Big Five" media conglomerates in the United States
- Big Five (publishers) in English-language book publishing: Hachette, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster
- Toho's Big Five Kaiju; Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan and MechaGodzilla
- Big Five (album), a 1972 album by Prince Buster
- Big Five, the national performing arts companies of Scotland
- The Five (composers), also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers
Business[edit]
- Big Five (banks), the five largest banks in Canada
- Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
- Big Five auditors, a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the Big Four
- Big Five auto shows: Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo
- Big Five law firms, the five largest law firms of South Africa
- Big Five Software, 1980s game developer
- Big 5 Sporting Goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
Government and politics[edit]
- Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California's government
- Big Five (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
- Big Five of Bayview, a group of political activists in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco
- A colloquial name to refer to the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia)
Sports[edit]
- Big Five (Argentine football), the leading teams of Argentine football
- "Big Five" or Power Five conferences, a group of U.S. college sports conferences
- Big Five Conference, a name used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, from 1959 to 1962
- Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in and near Philadelphia, mostly referencing the men's basketball programs of said schools
Science and technology[edit]
- Big5, a character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters
- Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors
- Big Five Weapons, five biological weapons developed by the United States Army
- The five major extinction events since life on Earth began
- The big five subsystems of second order arithmetic in reverse mathematics
- Rule of big 5, an expansion of the rule of three in C++11
Other uses[edit]
- Big five game animals, referring to the five African game animals said to be most difficult to hunt
- Five Families, a group of crime families in New York, United States
- Oceanic Big 5, a project for cleaning up the oceans
- Big Five animals of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, collectively referred to Indian Rhinoceros, Asian Elephant, Royal Bengal Tiger, Swamp Deer and Wild Water Buffalo
See also[edit]
- Big One (disambiguation)
- Big Two (disambiguation)
- Big Three (disambiguation)
- Big Four (disambiguation)
- Big Six (disambiguation)
- Big Seven (disambiguation)
- Big Eight (disambiguation)
- Big Ten (disambiguation)
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