Big Six

Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Big six in the romantic literature of England, authors of romantic literature of England
• The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome

Film

• The "Big Six" major film studios

Music

• Big Six, song of English sca musician Judge Dread from 1972

Games

• Big Six wheel, a casino game

Business and industry

• Big Six auditors, a group of accounting firms, so called from 1989 to 1998, that has since been reduced to the Big Four
• Big Six Energy Suppliers (UK), the six largest electric and gas suppliers in the UK
• Big Six law firms (Australia)
• The "Big Six" media conglomerates in the United States
• Big Six, supermajor, or Big Oil, the six largest publicly owned oil and gas companies
• Big Six publishers, which has since been reduced to the "Big Five" by the merger on 1 July 2013 of Penguin and Random House:
  • Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan
  • Hachette (publisher)
  • HarperCollins
  • Penguin Books
  • Random House
  • Simon & Schuster
• Big Six, New York Local #6 of the International Typographical Union
• Big Six, a group of inexpensive polymers that are widely produced and have a wide variety of uses:
  • polyethylene terephthalate
  • high-density polyethylene
  • low-density polyethylene
  • polyvinyl chloride
  • polypropylene
  • polystyrene

Fashion

• Big Six, a collective name by the fashion industry for the six most successful models of the 1990s

Political organizations and social movements

• Big Six (civil rights), leaders of the African-American civil rights movement in the United States
• The Big Six (Ghana), six Ghanaian nationalists jailed by the British colonial government in 1948
• The Big Six, Japan's Supreme War Council (Japan) during World War II

Sports

• BIG6 European Football League, an American football cup competition for club teams
• Big Six (ice hockey), the nickname for the six top-ranked men's ice hockey national teams (Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, United States)
• Big Six cricket dispute of 1912, involving the "Big Six" Australian cricketers
• Big Six Conference, later the Big Eight Conference, an unofficial name for the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1929 to 1946
• Big Six Conference, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities from 1962 to 1964
• The Big Six Marathons, nickname for the World Marathon Majors including the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York and Tokyo marathons

Athletes

• Big Six, the nickname for Jason Estrada, professional boxer born 1980
• Big Six, the nickname for Christy Mathewson, a baseball pitcher from 1900-1916
• The Big Six professional Super Smash Bros. Melee players, William "Leffen" Hjelte, Joseph "Mango" Marquez, Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman, Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, Adam "Armada" Lindgren, and Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma

Transportation

• Big Six, a Kawasaki 1300 motorcycle built from 1979 until 1989
• Big Six, the name given the Mercedes-Benz M186 engine
• Big Six, 2-10-2 type locomotives purchased by B&O Railroad
• Big Six, Baltimore and Ohio Class S locomotive
• Big Six, Western Maryland Railway's Shay locomotive #6, the last and second largest Shay produced

Other

• The Big Six elemental macronutrients for all biological life: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur

See also

• Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two (disambiguation)
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Five (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)
• Big Hero 6 (film), a 3D computer-animated superhero fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Marvel Animation in 2014