Big Five may refer to:

Animals

* the Big Five, large African wild animals said to be most difficult to hunt: lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and Cape buffalo * Big Five animals of the

Kaziranga National Park Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site. According to the census held i ...

, Assam, India: Indian rhinoceros, Indian elephant, Bengal tiger, swamp deer and wild water buffalo * Big Five animals of Alaska, United States:

bear Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Nor ...

s, moose, reindeer, Dall sheep and wolves * the Big Five fish UK consumers overwhelmingly eat: Atlantic cod, haddock,

Atlantic salmon The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...

, tuna and

prawns Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (which is a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten. The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip B (2010''This is not a weasel: a close look at nature ...

Arts and entertainment

* Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK * Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories * 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 * The "Big Five" largest UK ITV companies: * Big Five (publishers) in English-language book publishing: Hachette, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster * Toho's Big Five

Kaiju is a Japanese media genre that focuses on stories involving giant monsters. The word ''kaiju'' can also refer to the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and battling either the military or other monster ...

: Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan and

Mechagodzilla is a fictional mecha character that first appeared in the 1974 film ''Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla''. In its debut appearance, Mechagodzilla is depicted as an extraterrestrial villain that confronts Godzilla. In subsequent iterations, Mechagodzill ...

* ''Big Five'' (album), a 1972 album by Prince Buster * ''Big Five'', the national performing arts companies of Scotland * The Five (composers), also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers * The Big Five (film studios) – The five major films studios: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures

Business

* Big Five (banks), the five largest banks in Canada *

Big Five (Hawaii) The Big Five ( haw, Nā Hui Nui Elima) was the name given to a group of what started as sugarcane processing corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawaii during the early 20th century and leaned heavily towards ...

, an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii * Big Five (technology companies), a name given to

Big Tech Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants, refers to the most dominant companies in the information technology industry, mostly located in the United States. The term also refers to the four or five largest American tech companies, called the Big ...

companies in the 2010s ( Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple,

Meta Meta (from the Greek μετά, '' meta'', meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending". In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...

(Facebook), and Microsoft) * Big Five auditors, a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the ''Big Four'' * Big Five auto shows: Detroit, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo *

Big Five law firms The Big Five law firms is a term informally used in South Africa to refer to those law firms which, collectively, are perceived to be the leading law firms based in South Africa. The following firms are usually seen as comprising the "Big Five" ...

, the five largest law firms of South Africa * Big Five Software, 1980s game developer * Big 5 Sporting Goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company * The Big 5, the largest construction event in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia

Government and politics

* Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California's government * Big Five (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany *

Big Five (Scotland Yard) The Big Five was a nickname given to five superintendents in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, from about 1906 onwards. The first five to be appointed were: Charles John ...

, a group of five senior Metropolitan Police detectives called upon to conduct investigations throughout Britain * 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 (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)

Sports

* Big Five (Argentine football), the leading teams of Argentine football * Big Five (association football), the leading European markets in association football * "Big Five" or Power Five conferences, a group of U.S. college sports conferences that are larger than the other " Group of Five conferences" *

Big Five Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division ...

, a name used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, from 1959 to 1962 *

Philadelphia Big 5 The Big 5 is an informal association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is not a conference, but rather a group of NCAA Division I basketball schools who compete for the city’s collegiate championship. The Big 5 c ...

, an association of college athletic programs in and near Philadelphia, mostly referencing the men's basketball programs of said schools

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 traditional five major

extinction event An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. I ...

s during the Phanerozoic eon * The big five subsystems of second order arithmetic in reverse mathematics * Rule of big 5, an expansion of the

rule of three Rule of three or Rule of Thirds may refer to: Science and technology *Rule of three (aeronautics), a rule of descent in aviation *Rule of three (C++ programming), a rule of thumb about class method definitions * Rule of three (computer programming ...

in C++11

Other uses

* Five Families, a group of crime families in New York, United States * Oceanic Big 5, a project for cleaning up the oceans