Big Five
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The term Big Five may refer to:
In 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), in Canada
- Big Five (California), an informal institution of California's government
- Five Families of Cosa Nostra in New York: Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese.
- Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, pre-1956
- UN Security Council permanent members: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the People's Republic of China.
In sports and entertainment
- Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia
- Big Five Game, a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five animals said to be most dangerous to hunt: Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion
- 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.
- Mighty Handful, 19th century Russian composers known as the Big Five
- Big five (talent agencies), the five most powerful talent agencies in Hollywood.
- Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood.
- The Big Five (band) were a new wave Reggae/Funk band from Sydney formed in 1982. The name derives from a track on the album of the same name by Prince Buster released in 1972.
Other
- Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors : extraversion/introversion; friendliness/hostility; conscientiousness/impulsivity; emotional stability/neuroticism; and openness to experience.
- Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
- The Big 5 referring to Toho Company's 5 most popular monsters in the Godzilla Franchise; it refers to Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, and Rodan.
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