Big Six

Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Big six in the romantic literature of England, authors of romantic literature of England
The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome

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 (UK), the six largest electric and gas suppliers in the UK
Big Six law firms (Australia)
The "Big Six" media conglomerates in the United States
Big Six, or Supermajor, the six largest publicly owned oil and gas companies
Big Six publishers, which has since been reduced to the "Big Five" by the merger on 1 July 2013 of Penguin and Random House:
- Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan
- Hachette (publisher)
- HarperCollins
- Penguin Books
- Random House
- Simon & Schuster
Big Six, New York Local #6 of the International Typographical Union
Big Six, a group of inexpensive polymers that are widely produced and have a wide variety of uses:

Big Six, a collective name by the fashion industry for the six most successful models of the 1990s

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
The Big Six, Japan's Supreme War Council (Japan) during World War II

BIG6 European Football League, an American football cup competition for club teams
Big Six (ice hockey), the nickname for the six top-ranked men's ice hockey national teams (Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, United States)
Big Six cricket dispute of 1912, involving the "Big Six" Australian cricketers
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 Pac-12 Conference, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities from 1962 to 1964
The Big Six Marathons, nickname for the World Marathon Majors including the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York and Tokyo marathons

Big Six, a Kawasaki 1300 motorcycle built from 1979 until 1989
Big Six, the name given the Mercedes-Benz M186 engine
Big Six, 2-10-2 type locomotives purchased by B&O Railroad
Big Six, Baltimore and Ohio Class S locomotive
Big Six, Western Maryland Railway's Shay locomotive #6, the last and second largest Shay produced

The Big Six elemental macronutrients for all biological life: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur