# Big Five

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**Big Five** may refer to:

## Animals

- [Big Five game](/source/Big_Five_game), the large African wild animals said to be most difficult to hunt: lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and Cape buffalo

## Arts and entertainment

- [Big Five (Eurovision)](/source/Big_Five_(Eurovision)), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK
- [Big Five Academy Awards](/source/List_of_Big_Five_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees), the five main award categories
- [Big Five (orchestras)](/source/Big_Five_(orchestras)), the traditional top five orchestras of the United States
- [Big Five (Yu-Gi-Oh!)](/source/Big_Five_(Yu-Gi-Oh!)), a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe
- The "Big Five" largest UK ITV companies: [History of ITV § The Big Four and Big Five](/source/History_of_ITV#The_Big_Four_and_Big_Five)
- [Big Five (publishers)](/source/Publishing#Book_publishing_sub-divisions) in English-language book publishing: Hachette, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster
- [Toho](/source/Toho)'s Big Five kaiju: Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan and Mechagodzilla
- [*Big Five* (album)](/source/Big_Five_(album)), a 1972 album by Prince Buster
- *Big Five*, the [national performing arts companies of Scotland](/source/National_performing_arts_companies_of_Scotland)
- [The Five (composers)](/source/The_Five_(composers)), also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers
- [The Big Five (film studios)](/source/Major_film_studios#majors-current): Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., Walt Disney, & Columbia
- The current major [U.S. TV networks](/source/List_of_United_States_over-the-air_television_networks): NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox & The CW
- The major 5 film studios of the [studio system](/source/Studio_system): MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox, & RKO

## Business

- [Big Five (banks)](/source/Big_Five_(banks)), the five largest banks in Canada
- [Big Five (Hawaii)](/source/Big_Five_(Hawaii)), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
- [Big Five (technology companies)](/source/Big_Five_(technology_companies)), a name given to Big Tech companies in the 2010s (Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, Apple Inc., Meta Platforms (Facebook), and Microsoft)
- [Big Five auditors](/source/Big_Five_auditors), a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the *Big Four*
- [Big Five auto shows](/source/Auto_show): Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo
- [Big Five law firms](/source/Big_Five_law_firms), the five largest law firms of South Africa
- [Big Five Software](/source/Big_Five_Software), 1980s game developer
- [Big 5 Sporting Goods](/source/Big_5_Sporting_Goods), a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
- [The Big 5](/source/The_Big_5), the largest construction event in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia

## Government and politics

- [Big Five (California politics)](/source/Big_Five_(California_politics)), an informal institution of California's government
- [Big Five (Germany)](/source/Big_Five_(Germany)), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
- [Big Five (Scotland Yard)](/source/Big_Five_(Scotland_Yard)), a group of five senior Metropolitan Police detectives called upon to conduct investigations throughout Britain
- [Big Five of Bayview](/source/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](/source/Permanent_members_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council) (United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia), or the five leading powers of the preceding League of Nations (United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan)
- [Big Five (Labour Party)](/source/Big_Five_(Labour_Party)), a group of five influential British Labour Party (UK) politicians in the First Shadow Cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald

## Sports

- [Big Five (Argentine football)](/source/Big_Five_(Argentine_football)), the leading teams of Argentine football
- [Big Five (association football)](/source/Big_Five_(association_football)), the leading European markets in association football
- "Big Five" or [Power Five conferences](/source/Power_Five_conferences), a group of U.S. college sports conferences that are larger than the other "[Group of Five conferences](/source/Group_of_Five_conferences)"
- [Big Five Conference](/source/Pac-12_Conference#AAWU_(Big_Five_and_Big_Six)), a name used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, from 1959 to 1962
- [Philadelphia Big 5](/source/Philadelphia_Big_5), an association of college athletic programs in and near Philadelphia, mostly referencing the basketball programs of said schools. Big 5 teams compete in the annual [Big 5 Classic](/source/Big_5_Classic) showcase.

## Science and technology

- [Big5](/source/Big5), a character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters
- [Big Five personality traits](/source/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 traditional five major [extinction events](/source/Extinction_event) during the Phanerozoic eon
- [Big Five (arithmetic)](/source/Big_Five_(arithmetic)), five common subsystems of second order arithmetic in reverse mathematics
- Rule of big 5, an expansion of the [rule of three](/source/Rule_of_three_(C%2B%2B_programming)#Rule_of_Five) in C++11

## Other uses

- [Big Five cartel](/source/Big_Five_cartel), an organized crime cartel in South Africa.
- [Five Families](/source/Five_Families), a group of crime families in New York, United States.
- [Oceanic Big 5](/source/Oceanic_Big_5), a project for cleaning up the oceans.

## See also

- [Big One (disambiguation)](/source/Big_One_(disambiguation))
- [Big Two (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Two_(disambiguation))
- [Big Three (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Three_(disambiguation))
- [Big Four (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Four_(disambiguation))
- [Big Six (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Six_(disambiguation))
- [Big Seven (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Seven_(disambiguation))
- [Big Eight (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Eight_(disambiguation))
- [Big Ten (disambiguation)](/source/Big_Ten_(disambiguation))
- [Big 12 (disambiguation)](/source/Big_12_(disambiguation))

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