Big Six

Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:

Business and industry

• Big Six law firms (Australia)
• Big Six, the name used from 1989 to 1998 for what is now known as the Big Four (audit firms)
• The Big Six major film studios
• Big Six, the name given the Mercedes-Benz M130 engine
• Big Six, Western Maryland Railway Shay locomotive #6, the last and second largest Shay produced
• Big Six, Baltimore and Ohio Class S locomotive
• Big Six, 2-10-2 type locomotives purchased by B&O Railroad
• Big Six, a Kawasaki 1300 motorcycle built from 1979 until 1989
• Big Six, or Supermajor, the six largest publicly owned oil and gas companies
• Big Six (publishing)
  • Hachette (publisher)
  • Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan
  • Penguin Group
  • HarperCollins
  • Random House
  • Simon & Schuster
• Big Six Energy Suppliers (UK), the six largest electric and gas suppliers in the UK
• 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

Sports and entertainment

• The Big Six, the nickname for the six top-ranked men's ice hockey national teams (Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, United States)
• Big six in the romantic literature of England, authors of romantic literature of England
• The "Big Six" Australian cricketers involved in the Big Six cricket dispute of 1912
• 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 Pacific-12 Conference, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities from 1962 to 1964
• Big Six, the nickname for Christy Mathewson, a baseball pitcher from 1900-1916
• Big Six, the nickname for Jason Estrada, professional boxer born 1980
• The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome
• Big Six wheel, a casino game
• Big Six, a collective name by the fashion industry for the six most successful models of the 1990s
• Big Six" (song), a 1972 UK Top 40 hit single by Judge Dread

Other

• 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
• Supreme War Council (Japan) during World War II
• The Big Six elemental macronutrients for all biological life

See also

• Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two (disambiguation)
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Five (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)

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