Big Six
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Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Big six in the romantic literature of England, authors of romantic literature of England
- Big 6 Brass Band, a brass band from New Orleans, Louisiana
- "Big Six" (song), by Judge Dread, 1972
- Big Six wheel, a casino game
- The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome
- The Big Six, former name for major film studios until Disney acquisition of Fox
- The Big 6, a compilation of video games from the Dizzy series for the Amiga CD32
- Big 6 (album), an album by Blue Mitchell
Business and industry[edit]
- 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, the six largest electricity and gas suppliers in the United Kingdom
- Big Six (law firms), in Australia prior to 2012
- Big 6, New York Local #6 of the International Typographical Union
Organizations and movements[edit]
- Big Six (activists), leaders of major organizations in the civil rights movement within the United States in the 1960s
- The Big Six (Ghana), six Ghanaian nationalists jailed by the British colonial government in 1948
Sports[edit]
- Big6 Baseball League, a Japanese College Baseball league competition, one of the oldest sport leagues in Japan.
- 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
- Big 6 Hockey League, in Saskatchewan, Canada
- 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
- In association football, the six highest performing teams through the 2010s in England's Premier League, see: Emergence of the "Big Six"
Athletes[edit]
- Big Six, the nickname for Jason Estrada, professional boxer born 1980
- Big Six, the nickname for Christy Mathewson, a baseball pitcher from 1900 to 1916
Transportation[edit]
- Big Six, nickname for 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
- Morris Big Six, a family of motor cars