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Big Six or Big 6 may refer to:
- Big six in the romantic literature of England, 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, a casino game
- The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome
- The Big Six, former name for major film studios 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
- The six major radio networks in the United States in the 1950s: NBC, CBS, ABC, Mutual, Liberty, and PBS (not to be confused with PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service)
- The six major TV networks in the United States leading up to 2008: NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, The CW, & MyNetworkTV
Business and industry
Organizations and movements
- Big Six (activists), leaders of major organizations in the civil rights movement within the United States in the 1960s
- The Big Six (Ghana), 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, an American football cup competition for club teams
- Big 6 Hockey League, in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Big Six (ice hockey), the nickname for the six top-ranked men's ice hockey national teams
- Big Six (Premier League), a term to refer to six of the most successful Premier League clubs
- Big Six cricket dispute of 1912, 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, 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)
- Big Six Conference, now known as the Pac-12 Conference, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities from 1962 to 1964
Athletes
- Big Six, the nickname for Jason Estrada, professional boxer born 1980
- Big Six, the nickname for Christy Mathewson, a baseball pitcher from 1900 to 1916
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