Big Four

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Big Four may refer to:

People

• The Big Four (Calgary), businessmen and philanthropists Burns, Lane, Cross, and McLean
• The Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad), railroad entrepreneurs Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, and Crocker
• The Big Four (World War I), Allied leaders and Paris Peace Conference participants Clemenceau, Orlando, Lloyd George, and Wilson
• Big Four (debutantes), prominent Chicago debutantes King, Cummings, Letts, and Carry
• Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing, trainers Tammaro, Dutrow, Leatherbury and Delp

Places

• Big Four, West Virginia
• Big Four Bridge, Louisville, Kentucky
• Big Four Mountain, Snohomish County, Washington

Companies

• Big Four auditors, international accountancy and professional services firms Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Big Four British railway companies, the companies Great Western Railway; London, Midland and Scottish Railway; London and North Eastern Railway; and Southern Railway
• Big Four record labels, recording companies Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group
• Big Four (banks), several groupings of banks in different countries
• Big Four Railroad, a railroad company in the Midwestern United States
• The "Big Four" American television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox)
• The "Big Four" Eikaiwa schools (Nova, GEOS, AEON, and ECC)

Sport

• Big Four (English football), football clubs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United
• Big Four (Australian Football League), football clubs Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, and Richmond
• The "Big Four" World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view events (WrestleMania, Survivor Series, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble)
• The four major professional sports leagues of North America (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL) and the sports they regulate
• A type of split in ten pin bowling
• The four Division I sports teams in the state of Iowa: the Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa State Cyclones, Drake Bulldogs, and Northern Iowa Panthers

Music

• The "Big Four" bands of thrash metal (Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer)
• The "Big Four" sponsoring countries of the Eurovision Song Contest (Germany, France, Spain and United Kingdom)

Other uses

• The Big Four (novel), by Agatha Christie
• Big Four (Indian snakes), snake species Indian cobra, common krait, Russell's viper, and saw-scaled viper
• Big Four (White Star Line), ocean liners RMS Celtic, RMS Cedric, RMS Baltic, and RMS Adriatic
• Big 4, a game of the Pennsylvania Lottery
• The "Big Four" motorcycle clubs designated as Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (the Pagans, Hells Angels, Outlaws MC, and Bandidos)
• The "Big Four" beauty pageants (Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth, and Miss International)
• The "Little Big Four" of Canada's oldest private schools (St. Andrew's College, Ridley College, Trinity College School, and Upper Canada College), the predecessor to the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario Athletic Association

See also

• The Big One (disambiguation)
• Big Two
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Five (disambiguation)
• Big Six (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big 8 (disambiguation)

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