Big Brother may refer to: * Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four''), a character from George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' **

Authoritarian personality The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect. Conceptually, the term ''authoritarian personality'' originated from the writings of Erich Fro ...

, any omnipresent figure representing oppressive control **

Big Brother Awards The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel ''Nineteen Eigh ...

, a satirical award for acts against personal privacy **

Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch is a non-profit non-party British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation. It was launched in 2009 by founding director Alex Deane to campaign against state surveillance and threats to civil liberties. It was fou ...

, a UK pressure group *

Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as c ...

Surveillance state Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens. The surveillance is often carried out by local and federal governments or governmental organizatio ...

* An older brother, see

birth order Birth order refers to the order a child is born in their family; first-born and second-born are examples. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological development. This assertion has been repeatedly challe ...

Organisations

Big Brother Movement The Big Brother Movement was a youth migration program run by a non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia. It aimed to bring youths from Britain to Australia to work on farms or in the Australian outback. With the cooperation of the Austra ...

Music

* "Big Brother" (David Bowie song) * "Big Brother" (Kanye West song) *

Big Brother and the Holding Company Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. After some in ...

, an American band ** ''Big Brother & the Holding Company'' (album), a 1967 album by the band of the same name *

Big Brother Recordings Big Brother Recordings Ltd. is a record label set up in 2000 to release material by rock band Oasis in the UK and Ireland. On 19 June 2008 a deal was signed with Sony BMG which entitled them to an arranged portion of the profits from the ne ...

, a UK record label * "Big Brother", a 2004 song by Girls Aloud from ''

What Will the Neighbours Say? ''What Will the Neighbours Say?'' is the second studio album by English-Irish all-female pop group Girls Aloud. It was released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2004 by Polydor Records. Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania were en ...

'' * "Big Brother", a song by

Morten Abel Morten Abel Knutsen (born 15 October 1962), better known by his stage name Morten Abel is a Norwegian pop artist, and one of Norway's best-selling domestic artists. Career Morten Abel was born and grew up near Bodø, but moved to Stavanger when ...

* "Big Brother", a song by Reset from ''

No Limits No Limits may refer to: Books *''No Limits: The Will to Succeed'', a 2008 biography of Michael Phelps Film, television, and video games *'' Need for Speed: No Limits'', a 2015 mobile racing game in the ''Need for Speed'' franchise * ''No Limits'' ...

'' * "Big Brother", a song by Stevie Wonder from ''

Talking Book ''Talking Book'' is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. This album and ''Music of My Mind'', released earlier the same yea ...

Television

* ''Big Brother'' (franchise), a reality television series with numerous franchised international versions

Episodes

* "Big Brother" (''The Andy Griffith Show'') * "Big Brother" (''Are You Being Served?'') * "Big Brother" (''CSI: Miami'') * "Big Brother" (''Glee'') * "Big Brother" (''Only Fools and Horses'') * "Big Brother" (''Yes Minister'')

Other media

* ''Big Brother'' (1923 film), a lost 1923 American drama silent film * ''Big Brother'' (2007 film), a 2007 Bollywood film * ''Big Brother'' (2015 film), a 2015 Bangladeshi film * ''Big Brother'' (2018 film), a 2018 Hong Kong film starring

Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Chi-tan (; born 27 July 1963) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and action director. Yen is one of Hong Kong's top action stars. Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts (MMA) into the mainstream Asian cinema by cho ...

* ''Big Brother'' (2020 film), a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language film * ''Big Brother'' (magazine), a skateboarding culture magazine *

Big Brother (software) Big Brother (alias BB) was a tool for systems and network monitoring, generally used by system administrators. The advent of the dynamic web page allowed Big Brother to be one of the first monitoring systems to use the web as its user interface. Pr ...

, a tool for systems and network monitoring * ''Big Brother: A Novel'', a 2013 novel by

Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American author and journalist who lives in the United Kingdom. Her novel '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Early life and education Shriver ...

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