6 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 6 or six may also refer to: * AD 6, the sixth year of the AD era * 6 BC, the sixth year before the AD era * The month of June

Science

* Carbon, the element with atomic number 6 * 6 Hebe, an asteroid

People

* Alphonse Six (1890–1914), Belgian football player * Didier Six (born 1954), former French international footballer *

Franz Six Franz Alfred Six (12 August 1909 – 9 July 1975) was a Nazi official, promoter of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal. He was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich to head department Amt VII, Written Records of the Reich Security Main Office ( ...

(1909–1975), Nazi official *

Frederick N. Six Frederick N. Six (born April 20, 1929) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from September 1, 1988, to January 13, 2003. He was appointed to the supreme court by Kansas Governor Mike Hayden to replace David Prager who retired. Six, who was ...

(born 1929), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court *

James Six James Six FRS (1731 – 25 August 1793) was a British scientist born in Canterbury. He is noted for his invention, in 1780, of Six's thermometer, commonly known as the maximum- minimum thermometer. This device is still in common use today and widel ...

(1731–1793), British scientist * Jan Six (1616-1700), an important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age * Robert Six (1907–1986), Chief Executive Officer of Continental Airlines between 1936 and 1981 *

Regine Sixt Regine Sixt is a German businessperson and currently Senior Executive Vice President of Sixt International, an international car rental and leasing business. Career After studying in Germany, England and France, she met her future husband, Eric ...

, German businessperson *

Valérie Six Valérie Six (born 11 January 1963) is a French politician from the UDI who was the National Assembly deputy for Nord's 7th constituency from 2020 to 2022. She lost her seat in the first round of the 2022 French legislative election Legi ...

(born 1963), French politician * Perri 6 (an extremely rare surname), social scientist * Six family, family of regents of Amsterdam, founded by Jan Six

Music

* Six (band), an Irish pop band created by a TV reality show * ''Six'' (musical), a musical about the six wives of King Henry VIII * #6, the pseudonym of American musician Shawn Crahan, when performing with Slipknot

Albums

* ''6'' (After Crying album), 1997 * ''6'' (Amir Tataloo album), 2015 * ''6'' (Garmarna album), 2016 * ''6'' (Hadag Nachash album), 2010 * ''6'' (Mucc album), 2006 * ''6'' (Pigface album), 2009 * ''6'' (Soil & "Pimp" Sessions album), 2009 * ''6'' (Supersilent album), 2003 * ''6'' (The Ex album), 1991 * ''6'', an album by Yuridia, 2015 * ''Six'', album by Dream Evil, 2017 * ''Six'' (Loverboy album), 1997 * ''Six'' (Mansun album), 1998 * ''Six'' (Soft Machine album), 1973 * ''Six'' (The Black Heart Procession album), 2009 * ''Six'' (Tony Banks album) * ''Six'' (Whodini album)

Songs

* "Six" (song), a 1999 song by Mansun * "Six", by All That Remains from their album ''

The Fall of Ideals ''The Fall of Ideals'' is the third studio album by metalcore band All That Remains, released on July 11, 2006. Three music videos were created for the songs "This Calling", "Not Alone" and "The Air That I Breathe". It is the only All That Re ...

'' * "Six", by Chimaira from their album '' Resurrection'' * "6ix", by The Lemonheads from their album ''

Car Button Cloth ''Car Button Cloth'' is the seventh studio album by the Lemonheads, and the last under their contract with Atlantic Records. The band, as it were, consisted mostly of Dando himself playing many instruments, including his usual guitars and lead v ...

'' * "Six", by the cast of the musical '' Six''

Fiction

* ''6'' (film), a 2013 Tamil crime thriller * ''Six'' (film), a 2012 Telugu language suspense thriller * Six, a breed of superhumans in Philip K. Dick's novel '' Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'' * Sixers, a splinter faction in the television series '' Terra Nova'' * '' No. 6'', a Japanese manga by Atsuko Asano * Noble Six, a SPARTAN super-soldier from the game, Halo: Reach * ''Six'' (TV series), a History channel series about United States Navy SEALs

Fictional characters

* Number 6 (''The Prisoner''), the main character of ''The Prisoner'' * Number Six (''Battlestar Galactica''), a character in the science fiction television series ''Battlestar Galactica'' * Six, a witch woman in Terry Goodkind's novel ''

Phantom Phantom may refer to: * Spirit (animating force), the vital principle or animating force within all living things ** Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living Aircraft * Boeing Phantom Ray, a stealthy un ...

'' * Six, a character in the television series ''

Blossom In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus ''Prunus'') and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as wel ...

'' * Six, a character in the television series '' Tripping the Rift'' * Six, a character in the television series '' Generator Rex'' * Six, the protagonist of the horror-adventure video game series ''

Little Nightmares ''Little Nightmares'' is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One. A Nintendo Switch version was released in May 2018, followed ...

''.

Transportation

Automobiles

* BMW 6 Series, a German mid-size luxury car series * Mazda6, a Japanese mid-size car *

Mercedes-Maybach 6 The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 is a concept car unveiled by German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz, under its Maybach division, at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. It is a 2+2 coupé that features an all-electric powertrain with a claim ...

, a German concept grand tourer

Engines

Straight-six engine The straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line along the crankshaft. A straight-six engine has perfect primary and secondary engine bala ...

* V6 engine

Public transportation

* 6 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway

Other uses

* No. 6 novel, manga and anime series *

No.6 Records No.6 Records was an independent record label, started in 1989 as a subsidiary of Rough Trade Records by A&R representative and booking agent Terry Tolkin. The name of the label came from the British television series ''The Prisoner''; the main ch ...

* SIX (

Slovak Internet eXchange SIX (Slovak Internet eXchange) is a Slovak internet exchange point, established at the Center of Computer Technology of Slovak University of Technology (STU). , the SIX interconnects 58 ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organiza ...

), a Slovak internet exchange point * SIX, the stock market symbol for Six Flags * Six, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in McDowell County *

Six Lake Six Lake is a lake in Becker County, Minnesota, Becker and Otter Tail County, Minnesota, Otter Tail counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Six Lake was so named for its location in "section six" of Otter Tail County. See also *List of lakes ...

, a lake in Minnesota *

Six (cricket) In cricket, the boundary is the perimeter of a playing field. It is also the term given to a scoring shot where the ball is hit to, or beyond, that perimeter, which generally earns four or six runs for the batting team. Edge of the field The b ...

, a boundary shot in cricket *

SIX Swiss Exchange SIX Swiss Exchange (formerly SWX Swiss Exchange), based in Zurich, is Switzerland's principal stock exchange (the other being Berne eXchange). SIX Swiss Exchange also trades other security (finance), securities such as Swiss government bonds and d ...

, Switzerland's principal stock exchange * Six, the U.S. Army

radio call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigne ...

of a company or battalion commander *

6 (BMT rapid transit service) 6 was the BMT's designation for trains that used the BMT Fifth Avenue Line (labeled the Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line). When numbers were assigned in 1924, 6 was assigned to trains between Sands Street (on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridg ...

* 6 (New York City Subway service) *

Sony SIX Sony Sports Ten 5 (formerly Sony Six) is an Indian English-language pay television sports channel operated by Culver Max Entertainment. It is part of the Sony Sports Network. History Sony SIX was launched in April 2012 by Sony Pictures Networ ...

, a sports channel in India * "Watch your six" or "on your six", references to "behind" (with "12" being "ahead") originally from aviation/clock-position terms