Business and government

• Big 5 Sporting Goods
  Big 5 Sporting Goods
  Big 5 Sporting Goods is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 388 stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Steven G. Miller is the Chairman, President, and CEO.The Big 5 name is...
  
  , a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
• Big Five (Hawaii)
  Big Five (Hawaii)
  The Big Five 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 the Hawaii Republican Party. The Big Five were Castle & Cooke, Alexander &...
  
  , an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
• Big Five (banks), the five largest banks in Canada
• Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California's government
• Big Five (United Nations), the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
• Big Five (Germany), the five major metropolitan regions in Germany
• Big Five law firms, the five largest law firms of South Africa

Sports and entertainment

• The Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories
• Philadelphia Big 5
  Philadelphia Big 5
  The Philadelphia Big 5 is an informal association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is not a conference; indeed the five schools that are members of the Big 5 are members of three separate conferences: the Atlantic 10, the Big East, and the Ivy League.The five...
  
  , an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia
• Big Five Game
  Big Five game
  The phrase Big Five game was coined by white hunters and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. The term is still used in most tourist and wildlife guides that discuss African wildlife safaris. The collection consists of the lion, African elephant, cape buffalo,...
  
  , a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five animals said to be most difficult to hunt
• Big Five (orchestras)
  Big Five (orchestras)
  In the context of classical music in the United States, the Big Five refers to five symphony orchestras that were considered to be the most prominent and accomplished ensembles when the term gained widespread use by music critics in the late 1950s...
  
  , the traditional top five orchestras in America
• Big Five (Yu-Gi-Oh!), a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe
• Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood
• Big Five (album), a 1972 album by Prince Buster
• Big Five Conference, a name unofficially used by the Athletic Association of Western Universities, now known as the Pacific-12 Conference, when it had five members from 1959 to 1962
• Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest
• The Big Five of Argentine football
  The Big Five of Argentine football
  The Big Five is a coined term to reference the main five teams of Argentine association football. In alphabetical order, they are Boca Juniors, Independiente, Racing, River Plate and San Lorenzo....
  
  , the leading teams of Argentine football

Science and technology

• Big5
  Big5
  Big-5 or Big5 is a character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for Traditional Chinese characters.Mainland China, which uses Simplified Chinese Characters, uses the GB instead.- Organization :...
  
  , a character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters
• Big Five personality traits
  Big Five personality traits
  In contemporary psychology, the "Big Five" factors of personality are five broad domains or dimensions of personality which are used to describe human personality....
  
  , a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors
• Big Five Weapons
  Big Five Weapons
  The Big Five was a series of biological weapons developed by the United States Army Chemical Corps' Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick Biological Warfare Laboratory for use by special forces...
  
  , five biological weapons developed by the United States Army
• The five "Major Extinction Event
  Extinction event
  An extinction event is a sharp decrease in the diversity and abundance of macroscopic life. They occur when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of speciation...
  
  s" since life on Earth began
• The big five subsystems of second order arithmetic in reverse mathematics
  Reverse mathematics
  Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. Its defining method can briefly be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms", in contrast to the ordinary mathematical practice of...
  
  

Other

• Five Families
  Five Families
  The Five Families are the five original Italian-American Mafia crime families which have dominated organized crime in America since 1931. The Five Families in New York remain as the powerhouse of the Italian Mafia in the United States.-History:...
  
   of Cosa Nostra in New York
• The Five
  The Five
  The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie , refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin...
  
  , also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers

See also

• Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two (disambiguation)
  Big Two (disambiguation)
  Big Two is a card game similar to the game of Asshole, Crazy Eights, Bullshit, Winner, and other shedding games.Big Two may also refer to:* Big Two-Hearted River, a short story written by Ernest Hemingway...
  
  
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Six (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)
• Big Ten (disambiguation)
  Big Ten (disambiguation)
  Big Ten may refer to:* Big Ten Conference* Big Ten Network* Big Ten Tournament* "Big Ten Inch Record", a song by Bullmoose Jackson...