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Big Brother may refer to: * a brother senior in
birth order Birth order refers to the order a child is born in their family; first-born and second-born are examples. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological development. This assertion has been repeatedly challen ...


Literature

* Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four''), a character from George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' * ''Big Brother'' (magazine), a skateboarding culture magazine * ''Big Brother: A Novel'', by
Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American author and journalist who lives in the United Kingdom. Her novel '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Early life and education Shriver ...
, 2013


Music

* "Big Brother" (David Bowie song), 1973 * "Big Brother" (Kanye West song), 2007 *
Big Brother and the Holding Company Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. After some i ...
, an American band ** ''Big Brother & the Holding Company'' (album), 1967 *
Big Brother Recordings Big Brother Recordings Ltd. is a record label set up in 2000 to release material by rock band Oasis in the UK and Ireland. On 19 June 2008 a deal was signed with Sony BMG which entitled them to an arranged portion of the profits from the ne ...
, a British record label * "Big Brother", a 2004 song by Girls Aloud from ''
What Will the Neighbours Say? ''What Will the Neighbours Say?'' is the second studio album by English-Irish all-female pop group Girls Aloud. It was released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2004 by Polydor Records. Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania were enl ...
'' * "Big Brother", a 2006 song by
Morten Abel Morten Abel Knutsen (born 15 October 1962), better known by his stage name Morten Abel is a Norwegian pop artist, and one of Norway's best-selling domestic artists. Career Morten Abel was born and grew up near Bodø, but moved to Stavanger when ...
* "Big Brother", a 1999 song by Reset from '' No Limits'' * "Big Brother", a 1972 song by Stevie Wonder from ''
Talking Book ''Talking Book'' is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. This album and ''Music of My Mind'', released earlier the same y ...
'' * "Big Brother", a 2004 song by
Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...
, as Kaku P-Model from
Vistoron is the first album by Kaku P-Model, a solo continuation of P-Model led by Susumu Hirasawa. Overview ''Vistoron'' has a dystopian theme, something that was especially prominent in Hirasawa's work for a number of years starting with 2003's ''Blue ...
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Film

* ''Big Brother'' (1923 film), a lost American silent drama * ''Big Brother'' (2007 film), an Indian Hindi vigilante action film * ''Big Brother'' (2015 film), a Bangladeshi action romance * ''Big Brother'' (2018 film), a Hong Kong action drama * ''Big Brother'' (2020 film), an Indian Malayalam-language action thriller


Television

* ''Big Brother'' (franchise), reality competition television program with numerous international versions * "Big Brother", an episode of ''The Andy Griffith Show'' * "Big Brother", an episode of ''Are You Being Served?'' * "Big Brother", an episode of ''CSI: Miami'' (season 2) * "Big Brother" (''Glee''), a TV episode * "Big Brother" (''Only Fools and Horses''), a TV episode * "Big Brother", an episode of ''Yes Minister''


Other uses

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Big Brother (software) Big Brother (alias BB) was a tool for systems and network monitoring, generally used by system administrators. The advent of the dynamic web page allowed Big Brother to be one of the first monitoring systems to use the web as its user interface. Pr ...
, a tool for systems and network monitoring


See also

* * Brother (disambiguation) * Older Brother (disambiguation) *
Sister (disambiguation) A sister is a female sibling. Sister may also refer to: Role or title *Sister, the title of address for a nun *Sister, a title usually preceding a surname as a way to address a female parishioner in some Protestant church settings *Sister, a Je ...
* Little Brother (disambiguation) * Little Sister (disambiguation) * Big Sister (disambiguation) * Big Brothers Big Sisters (disambiguation) * Big Boss (disambiguation) *
Authoritarian personality The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect. Conceptually, the term ''authoritarian personality'' originated from the writings of Erich Fr ...
, is a personality type *
Big Brother Awards The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy". They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel ''Nineteen Eig ...
, a satirical award for acts against personal privacy *
Big Brother Movement The Big Brother Movement was a youth migration program run by a non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia. It aimed to bring youths from Britain to Australia to work on farms or in the Australian outback. With the cooperation of the Austr ...
, an Australian youth migration program *
Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch is a non-profit non-party British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation. It was launched in 2009 by founding director Alex Deane to campaign against state surveillance and threats to civil liberties. It was foun ...
, a British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation * "My Big Brother", an episode of ''Scrubs'' (season 2) *
Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation Fraternal birth order has been correlated with male sexual orientation, with a significant volume of research finding that the more older brothers a male has from the same mother, the greater the probability he will have a homosexual orientation ...
* Surveillance, the monitoring of behavior, activities or information *
Very Big Brother New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. Named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, design work on the vehicle began in 2012. Illustrations of the vehicle, and the high-level specifications, were initially ...
, a spacecraft launch vehicle {{Disambiguation