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
• Big Five (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
• Big Five law firms, the five largest law firms of South Africa
• Reference to the five largest Western European countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain), for example, in the context of the Eurovision song context, or to their football leagues

Sports and entertainment

• The Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories
• Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia
• Big five game, a term first coined by big game hunters to refer to the five animals said to be most difficult to hunt, later adopted by safari tour operators
• Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America
• 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 (album), a 1972 album by Prince Buster
• Big Five Conference, a name unofficially used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pacific-12 Conference, when it had five members from 1959 to 1962
• Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest
• The Big Five of Argentine football, the leading teams of Argentine football
• Big Five, the national performing arts companies of Scotland

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

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

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)