Big Five

The term Big Five may refer to:

Business and government

Big 5 Sporting Goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
Big Five (banks), the five largest banks in Canada
Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California's government
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 (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
Big Five law firms, the five largest law firms of South Africa
Big Five auditors, a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the Big Four
Big Five Software, 1980s game developer
Big Five television networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and The CW Television Network

Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK
The Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories
Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in and near Philadelphia
Big five game animals, a term first coined by big game hunters to refer to the five African game animals said to be most difficult to hunt, later adopted by safari tour operators
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
Big Five (publishing); Hachette (publisher), Georg von 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

Big Five, the five most successful and supported teams in Scottish football (Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs)
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 unofficially used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, when it had five members from 1959 to 1962
"Big Five" conferences, more often called the Power Five conferences, the group of U.S. college sports conferences that are primary partners in the College Football Playoff

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

The Big Five may also refer to:

Five Families, a crime families in New York
The Five (composers), also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers
Oceanic Big 5, a project for cleaning up the oceans