The Famous Five
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The Famous Five may refer to:
- The Famous Five (Canada)The Famous Five (Canada)The Famous Five or The Valiant Five were five Canadian women who asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" in the case Edwards v...
, also known as "The Valiant Five," a group of Canadian women who were proponents in a landmark women's rights case. - The Famous Five (football)The Famous Five (football)The Famous Five is the collective term for Hibernian's forward line of Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Eddie Turnbull and Willie Ormond. The north stand at Easter Road was named in their honour when it was rebuilt in 1995...
, the Hibernian Football Club forward line during the late 1940s and early 1950s: Smith, Johnstone, Reilly, Turnbull and Ormond. - Famous Five (Greyfriars School), schoolfellows of Billy BunterBilly BunterWilliam George Bunter , is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards...
at Greyfriars SchoolGreyfriars SchoolGreyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove , whose most famous pupil was Billy Bunter, other characters... - The Famous Five (series)The Famous Five (series)The Famous Five is the name of a series of children's novels written by British author Enid Blyton. The first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was published in 1942....
, Enid Blyton's series about the adventures of four children and a dog. - The Famous Five (1970s TV series)The Famous Five (1970s TV series)The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes.- Production :...
, a TV adaptation of the above books - The Famous Five (1990s TV series)The Famous Five (1990s TV series)The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on the CITV, the children's strand of ITV, over two series between 1995 and 1997...
, another TV adaptation of the above books - The Famous Five, former name of Spiro (band)Spiro (band)Spiro are an instrumental musical group based in Bristol, England. They formed in 1993 as The Famous Five, soon settling on a line-up which remains unchanged to this day. They released one album under that name before changing it to Spiro in 1997...
, a music group based in Bristol, England