Major (disambiguation)

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Major is a military rank. The word derives from Latin maior (also spelled major) which means greater. Major or majors may also refer to:

Music

• Major (music), class of chord, interval, key, or scale
  • Major scale
  • Major chord
  • The names of various intervals, such as a Major third or Major sixth
• Major, a method of Change ringing for eight church bells
• Major record label
• The Majors (band), an American R&B group
• Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group
• Major (band), a British band

People

Surname

• Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet
• Edward Major (1615–c. 1655), Virginia colonial politician
• Fali Homi Major (born 1947), Indian air marshal
• John Major (born 1943), British Prime Minister
• John C. Major (born 1931), Canadian jurist
• John Clarkson Major (1826–1895), manufacturing chemist and tar distiller, served as 27th Mayor of Wolverhampton, 1875/76
• Corporal Leo Major (1921–2008), Corporal in the Canadian Army
• Les Major (1926–2001), English footballer
• Mark Major (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
• William James Major (1881–1953), Canadian politician and jurist
• William T. Major (1790-1867), American pastor
• Johnny Majors (born 1935), American football player and coach
• Lee Majors (born 1939), American actor
• Shirley Majors (1914–1981), American football coach, father of Johnny Majors
• Matt Sanchez (born 1970), American journalist and former porn star, known in the latter field by the stage name "Rod Majors"

Given or nickname

• Major Applewhite (born 1978), American football quarterback and coach
• Major Garrett (born 1962), American journalist
• Major Harris (born 1968), American football quarterback
• Major Owens (1936–2013), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–2007)
• Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), known as "Major" Taylor, American cyclist

Fictional

• Major Gowen, character on the British television series Fawlty Towers
• Major Major Major Major, character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
• The Major (Hellsing), character in the Japanese manga series Hellsing
• The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi, character in the Japanese anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell
• Old Major, a fictional character from the novel Animal Farm

Places

• Major, Kentucky
• Major, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
• Lake Major, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mount Major, a small mountain in New Hampshire, United States
• Major, the Hungarian name for Maieru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania

Species

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

Sport

• Major League Baseball or majors, the highest level of North American professional baseball competition

Golf

In golf, a major or "major championship" is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments:

Men

• Men's major golf championships
  • The Masters
  • U.S. Open
  • The Open Championship (also called "British Open")
  • PGA Championship
• Senior major golf championships
  • Senior PGA Championship
  • The Tradition
  • Senior Players Championship
  • U.S. Senior Open
  • The Senior Open Championship

Women

• Women's major golf championships
  • Kraft Nabisco Championship
  • LPGA Championship
  • U.S. Women's Open
  • Women's British Open

Tennis

In tennis, the four Grand Slam events are also known as the "majors":

• Australian Open
• French Open
• The Championships, Wimbledon
• US Open

Other sports

• Major League Soccer
• mid-major (American college sports)
• The Major Brothers, the professional wrestling tag team of Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder,
• "Major score" or "major", an alternate term in Canadian football for the scoring play also known as a touchdown.

Other

• Academic major, the primary field of study for a Bachelor's degree, in the United States and some other countries
• Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
• Major (manga), a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
• Major suit or majors in contract bridge, namely hearts and spades
• Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school students have the same surname
• Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal
• Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco
• Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year

See also

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