Great Famine may refer to:

China

Great Chinese Famine The Great Chinese Famine () was a period between 1959 and 1961 in the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) characterized by widespread famine. Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the dead ...

(1958–1961)

Greece

* Great Famine (Greece) (1941–1944)

India

* Great Bengal famine of 1770 * Great Rajputana Famine (1869) *

Great Famine of 1876–1878 The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in British Raj, India under Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. It affected South India, south and West India, Southwestern India—th ...

Ireland

Great Famine (Ireland) The Great Famine ( ga, an Gorta Mór ), also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a h ...

(1845–1852), occasion for the great exodus of Irish and the Irish diaspora

Japan

* Kan'ei Great Famine (1640–1643) * Great Tenmei famine (1782–1788) * Tenpō famine or Great Tenpō famine (1833–1837)

Lebanon

* Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915–1918)

North Korea

* North Korean famine (1994–1998)

Northern Europe

* Great Famine of 1315–1317 * Great Famine of 1695–1697

Ukraine

Holodomor The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...

or the Great Famine of 1932–1933

Other uses

* ''The Great Famine'', a 2011 documentary about the Russian famine of 1921