Big Four

Big Four or The Big Four may refer to:

Companies

See also: Big Four (companies) and Big Four (banks).

• Big Four auditors, the largest international professional services firms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG.
• Big Four pageants, which regularly receive the largest number of delegates from all over the world: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth.
• The Big Four, owners of the Central Pacific Railroad: Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker
• Big Four British railway companies, the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923-1947
• The Big Four Japanese motorcycle manufacturers: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha

Places

• Big Four, West Virginia, United States.<3
• Big Four Bridge (Louisville), Kentucky, United States.
• Big Four Mountain, Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

Countries

• The biggest countries (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and China) that founded the United Nations.
• The biggest English-speaking countries in the world (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia).

Politics and military

• The leaders who attended the Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Woodrow Wilson/U.S.A., David Lloyd George/U.K., Vittorio Orlando/Italy, and Georges Clemenceau/France).
• The Great Offices of State in the British government: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary.
• The biggest British trade unions affiliated with the Labour Party: Amicus, the GMB, the Transport and General Workers' Union, and UNISON.
• The only pieces of information a prisoner of war is required to give to a captor under the Third Geneva Convention (name, date of birth, rank, and service number).

Sport

See also: Big Four (sport).

• The Big Four (football), the four highest-income clubs in the English Premier League in the early 21st century: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.
• Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing, American Thoroughbred horse trainers in Maryland, U.S.A., in the 1960s and 1970s: John J. Tammaro, Jr., Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., King T. Leatherbury and Grover G. "Bud" Delp.

Education

• The Little Big Four, elite Ontario, Canada independent University-preparatory schools (Ridley College, St. Andrew's College, Upper Canada College, and Trinity College School).
• The biggest universities of Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Technology, Sydney, and Macquarie University.
• The largest English language schools in Japan: Nova, AEON, GEOS, and ECC.

Law firms

• The largest law firms in the United Kingdom: Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters. Despite being physically smaller, Slaughter & May is usually added to this list of "magic circle firms" due to its sheer profitability and quality of work.
• The largest law firms in Japan: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Nishimura & Partners, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune.

Music and media

• The Big Four of Hard Rock: Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath.
• The Big Four British Invasion bands: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks.
• The Big Four in Progressive Rock: Yes, Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and King Crimson.
• The Big Four popular and highly influential punk rock bands of 1977: Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Jam
• The Big Four successful California punk bands of the mid-1990s: Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, and NOFX
• The major media giants which dominate the World music market (EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group).
• The four dominating American thrash metal bands during the 1980s; Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Metallica.
• The Big Four of Garage Rock: The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Hives, and The Vines
• The Big Four most prominent grunge bands that emerged from Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s:: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
• The Big Four nu metal bands of the late 1990s/early 2000s: Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Coal Chamber (Note: Can also be the Big 5 with System of a Down, who also started in the late 1990s, but they have never considered themselves a nu-metal band.)
• The nations allowed automatic entries to the Eurovision Song Contest final, due to their financial contributions: France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
• The major U.S. television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox).
• The ITV companies in the period 1956 to 1968, in the U.K. (Associated-Rediffusion/Rediffusion London, ATV, ABC, and Granada Television).

Others

• The Big Four (novel), by Agatha Christie.
• Big Four (Indian snakes), the deadliest of India's venomous snakes: Indian cobra, Common krait, Russell's viper and Saw-scaled viper.
• The largest Internet Relay Chat networks: EFNet, IRCNet, Quakenet, and Undernet.
• In medical records, the History and Physical Examination, Consultation Report, Operative Report, and Discharge Summary.

See also

• Gang of Four