Big Five

Big Five may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• 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
• The "Top Five" media conglomerates in the United States
• Big Five (publishers) in English-language book publishing: Hachette (publisher), 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

• 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
• Big Five television networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and The CW Television Network
• Big Five, the most influential international technology companies: Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google

Government and politics

• Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California's government
• Big Five (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
• A colloquial name to refer to the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia)
• "Big Five" intelligence agencies, the five major U.S. intelligence agencies: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the National Security Agency (NSA)

Sports

• Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in and near Philadelphia, mostly referencing the men's basketball programs of said schools
• Big Five, the five most successful and supported teams in Scottish football (Rangers F.C., Celtic F.C., Aberdeen F.C., Heart of Midlothian F.C. and Hibernian F.C.)
• Big Five (Argentine football), the leading teams of Argentine football
• "Big Five", the world’s most prestigious national football leagues (the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga and French Ligue 1)
• Big Five Conference, a name used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, from 1959 to 1962
• "Big Five" or Power Five conferences, a group of U.S. college sports conferences

Science and technology

• 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

Other uses

• 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
• Oceanic Big 5, a project for cleaning up the oceans

See also

• Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two (disambiguation)
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Six (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)
• Big Ten (disambiguation)