Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Big six in the romantic literature of England Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet. To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style o ...

, 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 The Big Six wheel (also known simply as The Big Six, the Wheel of Fortune, or the Big Wheel) is an unequal gambling, game of chance, played using a large vertical wheel that can be spun. Since 13 May 2002, it can be played legally in licensed ca ...

, a casino game * ''

The Big Six ''The Big Six'' is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with ...

'', a children's novel by Arthur Ransome * ''The Big Six'', former name for

major film studios Major film studios are filmmaking, production and film distributor, distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market. In the American ...

until the 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

* 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 Big Six were the United Kingdom's largest retail suppliers of gas and electricity, who dominated the market following Office of Gas and Electricity Markets#Development of competition in the UK market, liberalisation in the late 1990s. By 200 ...

, the six largest electricity and gas suppliers in the United Kingdom *

Big Six (law firms) The Big Six is a term that has traditionally referred to the six largest Australian law firms, as assessed by revenue and lawyer head count. From the mid-1980s, the phrase was in regular use to distinguish the largest Australian firms, collectiv ...

, in Australia prior to 2012 * Big 6, New York Local #6 of the

International Typographical Union The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a North American trade union for the printing trade of newspapers and other media. It was founded on May 3, 1852, in the United States as the National Typographical Union. It changed its name to the ...

Organizations and movements

Big Six (activists) The Big Six— Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Was ...

, leaders of major organizations in the civil rights movement within the United States in the 1960s *

The Big Six (Ghana) The Big Six were six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), one of the leading political parties in the British colony of the Gold Coast, known after independence as Ghana. They were detained by the colonial authorities in 1948 fol ...

, six Ghanaian nationalists jailed by the British colonial government in 1948

Sports

* Big6 Baseball League, a Japanese College Baseball league competition, one of the oldest sport leagues in Japan. *

BIG6 European Football League The BIG6 European Football League (BIG6) was a European Cup style tournament for European American football teams. Originally organized by the EFAF (European Federation of American Football), the tournament had been run by the German Football L ...

, an American football cup competition for club teams *

Big 6 Hockey League The Big 6 Hockey League is a senior men's ice hockey league in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. There are currently nine teams in the league. The league began in 1959-1960 with four teams, the Bienfait Coalers, Frobisher, Saskatchewan, Frob ...

, in Saskatchewan, Canada *

Big Six (ice hockey) In men's international ice hockey, the Big Six is a group comprising the six national teams that have dominated play throughout the history of international ice hockey, especially since the 1950s. It has traditionally been composed of the North A ...

, the nickname for the six top-ranked men's ice hockey national teams *

Big Six (Premier League) The Big Six is an informal term used to describe a group of six clubs in the Premier League—Arsenal F.C., Arsenal, Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, Liverpool F.C., Liverpool, Manchester City F.C., Manchester City, Manchester United F.C., Manchester U ...

, a term to refer to six of the most successful Premier League clubs *

Big Six cricket dispute of 1912 The Big Six cricket dispute of 1912 was a confrontation between the administrators and players of the sport of cricket in Australia. Six of Australia's leading cricketers refused an invitation to tour England for the 1912 Triangular Tournament. ...

, involving the "Big Six" Australian cricketers * Big Six Junior College Conference, a junior college athletic conference with member schools located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas that operated from 1950 to 1954 * Big Six Conference, later the

Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored American football, football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate ...

, an unofficial name for the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1929 to 1946 * Big Six Conference, an unofficial name for the

Northwest Conference (1908–1925) The Northwest Conference, also known as the Northwest Intercollegiate Association, the Northwest Intercollegiate Conference, the Pacific Northwest Conference, and the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference, was a collegiate athletic confere ...

* Big Six Conference, now known as the

Pac-12 Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I level for all sports, and its Co ...

, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities from 1962 to 1964

Athletes

* Big Six, the nickname for

Jason Estrada Jason Moses Estrada (born November 30, 1980) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2015. As an amateur, he competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in the super heavyweight division. He also won the gold medal at the 2003 ...

, professional boxer born 1980 * Big Six, the nickname for

Christy Mathewson Christopher Mathewson (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925), nicknamed "Big Six," "the Christian Gentleman," "Matty," and "the Gentleman's Hurler," was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for ...

, a baseball pitcher from 1900 to 1916

Transportation

* Big Six, nickname for the

Mercedes-Benz M186 engine The Mercedes Benz M186 Engine was a 3.0–litre single overhead camshaft inline-6 developed in the early 1950s to power the company's new flagship 300 "Adenauer" (W186) four-door saloon. It made its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in April 1951 ...

* Big Six,

2-10-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. In the United States and elsewhere the is known as th ...

type locomotives purchased by B&O Railroad * Big Six,

Baltimore and Ohio class S Baltimore and Ohio Class S comprised three classes of 2-10-2 locomotives. The S class proper were 31 locomotives built in 1914 by Baldwin Locomotive Works and numbered 6000–6030. The S-1 class comprised 50 locomotives numbered 6100–6149, an ...

locomotive * Big Six, Western Maryland Railway's

Shay locomotive The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive that originated and was primarily used in North America. The locomotives were built to the patents of Ephraim Shay, who has been credited with the popularization of the concept of a ''geared st ...

#6, the last and second largest Shay produced *

Morris Big Six Morris Big Six is a range of motor cars that was produced by Morris of the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europ ...