The Big5 – The Big Five

The term Big Five may refer to:

Business and government
Sports and entertainment
Science and technology
Other

Business and government
Among others :
Big 5 Sporting Goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
Big Five (banks), the five largest banks in Canada
Big Five (California politics), an informal institution of California’s government
Big Five (United Nations), the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
Big Five law firms, the five largest law firms of South Africa

Sports and entertainment

The Big Five Academy Awards, the five main award categories
Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia
Big Five Game, a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five animals said to be most difficult to hunt
Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America
Big Five (Yu-Gi-Oh!), a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe
Big Five (movie studios), the five most powerful movie studios in Hollywood
Big Five (Eurovision), the five main sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest
The Big Five of Argentine football, the leading teams of Argentine football

Science and technology
Big5, a character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters
Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors
Big Five Weapons, five biological weapons developed by the United States Army

Other
The Big Five may also refer to:
Five Families of Cosa Nostra in New York
The Five, also known as the Mighty Handful, group of 19th century Russian composers