• Academic major
  Academic major
  In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....
  
  , the primary focus of a Bachelor's degree, in the United States and some other countries
• Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
• Major (manga)
  Major (manga)
  Major is a sports manga series by Takuya Mitsuda. It has been serialized in Shōnen Sunday and has been collected in 78 tankōbon volumes...
  
  , a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
• Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year
• Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school
  Public School (UK)
  A public school, in common British usage, is a school that is neither administered nor financed by the state or from taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of endowments, tuition fees and charitable contributions, usually existing as a non profit-making charitable trust...
  
   students have the same surname
• Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal
  Redstone Arsenal
  Redstone Arsenal is a United States Army base and a census-designated place adjacent to Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, United States and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area...
  
  
• Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's
  Carroll's
  P.J. Carroll & Company Limited, often called Carroll's, is a tobacco company in Ireland, now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. Its cigarette brands were among the best selling in Ireland in the twentieth century...
  
  , a subsidiary of British American Tobacco
  British American Tobacco
  British American Tobacco p.l.c. is a global tobacco company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second largest quoted tobacco company by global market share , with a leading position in more than 50 countries and a presence in more than 180 countries...
  
  

Sport

• In American professional sports, various leagues are described as major (or "the majors") when they represent the highest level of competition in their geographic area, such as:
  • Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
    
    
  • Major League Soccer
    Major League Soccer
    Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
    
    
• In American college sports, "major" has multiple meanings. For a more comprehensive discussion of the different meanings of "major" in the college athletics context, see mid-major
  Mid-major
  Mid-major is a term used in American Division I college sports, to refer to athletic conferences that are not among the major six conferences...
  
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• In golf, a "major championship" is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments (not more than five) recognized by the relevant authorities for a particular branch of the sport. See:
  • Men's major golf championships
    Men's major golf championships
    The men's major golf championships, commonly known as the Major Championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf...
    
    
  • Women's major golf championships
    Women's major golf championships
    Women's golf has a set of major championships which parallels that in men's golf, but the women's system is younger and has been less stable than the men's. Many professional stroke play events for women are played over three rounds , but the majors are played over four rounds , which is the...
    
    
  • Senior major golf championships
    Senior major golf championships
    Men's professional senior golf is for players aged 50 and above. Golf differs from all other sports in having lucrative competitions for this age group. The leading senior tour is the U.S. based Champions Tour, which was established in 1980 . It has established a roster of five major championships...
    
    
• The Major Brothers, Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder
  Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder
  Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder were a American professional wrestling tag team who appeared on the independent circuit and WWE under a variety of evolving names....
  
  , a professional wrestling tag team
• A "major score" or "major" is an alternate term in Canadian football for the scoring play also known as a touchdown
  Touchdown
  A touchdown is a means of scoring in American and Canadian football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone.-Description:...
  
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• In tennis, the Grand Slam (tennis)
  Grand Slam (tennis)
  The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
  
   events are referred to as "Majors" or "The Majors":
  • Australian Open
    Australian Open
    The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
    
    
  • French Open
  • The Championships, Wimbledon
    The Championships, Wimbledon
    The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
    
    
  • US Open

Music

• Major and minor
  Major and minor
  In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.Major and minor are frequently referred to in the titles of classical compositions, especially in reference to the key of a piece.-Intervals and chords:With regard...
  
  , types of scale, key, chord or interval; also,
  • Major scale
    Major scale
    In music theory, the major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales. It is made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first an octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti/Si, ", the "Do" in the parenthesis at...
    
    
  • Major chord
    Major chord
    In music theory, a major chord is a chord having a root, a major third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord has these three notes alone, it is called a major triad...
    
    
  • The names of various intervals, such as a Major third
    Major third
    In classical music from Western culture, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions , and the major third is one of two commonly occurring thirds. It is qualified as major because it is the largest of the two: the major third spans four semitones, the minor third three...
    
     or Major sixth
    Major sixth
    In classical music from Western culture, a sixth is a musical interval encompassing six staff positions , and the major sixth is one of two commonly occurring sixths. It is qualified as major because it is the largest of the two...
    
    
• Major, a method of Change ringing
  Change ringing
  Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes". It differs from many other forms of campanology in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody....
  
   rung on eight church bells
• The Majors (band)
  The Majors (band)
  The Majors were an American R&B group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The vocal ensemble formed in 1961, and featured as its lead singer Ricky Cordo, who was noted for his prominent falsetto. The group was noticed by producer Jerry Ragovoy, who produced their hit single "A Wonderful Dream",...
  
  , an American R&B group
• Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group

People

• Clarence Major
  Clarence Major
  - Biography :Clarence Major is a poet, painter and novelist who was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Chicago. In his early twenties he started publishing his own literary magazine, Coercion Review, which featured poets and writers such as Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence...
  
   (born 1936), American poet
• Edward Major
  Edward Major
  Lieutenant Colonel Edward Major was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician.- Life :Major was born in England around 1615. He moved to Virginia in 1635 and became a prominent farmer and militia leader in Nansemond County. He was a Burgess from Upper Norfolk Co...
  
   (1615–c. 1655), Virginia colonial politician
• John Major
  John Major
  Sir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...
  
   (born 1943), British Prime Minister
• John C. Major
  John C. Major
  John Charles "Jack" Major, CC, QC is a Canadian jurist and was a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1992 to 2005....
  
   (born 1931), Canadian jurist
• Corporal Leo Major
  Leo Major
  Corporal Léo Major was a Montrealer soldier in the Régiment de la Chaudière in World War II. He was one of only three Canadian soldiers in the British Commonwealth to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the only Canadian to have been awarded the honour twice , and the only Allied soldier...
  
   (1921–2008), Corporal in the Canadian Army
• Mark Major
  Mark Major
  Mark Major is a retired ice hockey left winger. He was drafted 25th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League's 1988 entry draft. Major acquired many penalty minutes over his career due to his playing style, which involved battling in front of the net for loose pucks,...
  
   (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
• William James Major
  William James Major
  William James Major was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1941, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of John Bracken....
  
   (1881–1953), Canadian politician and jurist
• Bill Majors
  Bill Majors
  Bill Majors is an American Christian missionary to South Korea. He is the pastor of the International Worship in English of Young Nak Presbyterian Church in Seoul. He arrived in Korea at the age of 21 in 1982 and began working for Young Nak Presbyterian Church in 1988. He founded IWE in 1998 with...
  
   (born 1960), American Christian missionary
• Johnny Majors
  Johnny Majors
  Johnny Majors is a former American football player and coach. A standout halfback at the University of Tennessee, he was an All-American in 1956 and a two-time winner of the Southeastern Conference Most Valuable Player award, in 1955 and 1956. He finished second to Paul Hornung in voting for...
  
   (born 1935), American football player and coach
• Lee Majors
  Lee Majors
  Lee Majors is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his starring role as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy ....
  
   (born 1939), American actor
• Shirley Majors
  Shirley Majors
  -External links:*...
  
   (1914–1981), American football coach; father of several notable football players and coaches, the most famous being Johnny Majors
• Les Major
  Les Major
  Leslie Dennis Major was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.He played schoolboy football in Loughborough for Brush Sports, where he was spotted by representatives of Leicester City. He spent two years with the club, making 26 league appearances, before joining Plymouth Argyle on a...
  
   (1926–2001), English footballer
• William T. Major
  William T. Major
  William Trabue Major was a prominent religious leader in Bloomington, Illinois in the mid-19th century. He founded the First Christian Church and built the city's first public meeting hall, Major's Hall, which hosted an early convention of the Illinois branch of the Republican Party and became...
  
   (1790-1867), American pastor

• Major Applewhite
  Major Applewhite
  Major Lee Applewhite is the Co-Offensive Coordinator and Running Backs Coach for the University of Texas. Prior to Texas, Applewhite served as offensive coordinator at Rice University under Todd Graham in 2006, and at the University of Alabama under Nick Saban in 2007...
  
   (born 1978), American football quarterback and coach
• Major Harris
  Major Harris
  Major Harris is a former college football quarterback for West Virginia University during the 1980s. Harris was a 1989 All American and finished third and fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1988 and 1989, respectively. He was also the ECAC Player of the Year in 1988 and 1989...
  
   (born 1968), American football quarterback
• Marshall Taylor
  Marshall Taylor
  Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor was an American cyclist who won the world track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination...
  
   (1878–1932), known as 'Major' Taylor, American cyclist
• Rod Majors, nom de porn of porn star and award winning journalist Matt Sanchez

• Major Gowen
  Major Gowen
  Major Gowen is a fictional character played by Ballard Berkeley in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.Major Gowen is an old, befuddled, somewhat senile ex-soldier permanently residing in the hotel. He enjoys talking about the world and is always on the lookout for the newspaper. He has trouble forgiving...
  
  , character on the British television series Fawlty Towers
• Major Major Major Major
  Major Major Major Major
  Major Major Major Major is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.-Fictional character biography:He has the surname Major, and at birth his father gave him the first and middle names Major and Major, informing the mother that he had named the boy 'Caleb' in accordance with her wishes...
  
  , character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
• The Major (Hellsing), character in the Japanese manga series Hellsing
• The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi
  Motoko Kusanagi
  is a fictional Japanese character in the Ghost in the Shell anime and manga series. She is a cyborg employed as the squad leader of Public Security Section 9, a fictional division of the real Japanese National Public Safety Commission. She is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka in the movies and the Ghost in...
  
  , character in the Japanese anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell

Places

• Major, Saskatchewan
  Major, Saskatchewan
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  , a village in Canada
• Lake Major, Nova Scotia
  Lake Major, Nova Scotia
  Lake Major is a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia....
  
  , Canada
• Mount Major
  Mount Major
  Mount Major is a mountain located in Alton, New Hampshire, south of Lake Winnipesaukee and northeast of Straightback Mountain of the Belknap Range....
  
  , a small mountain in New Hampshire, United States
• Major, the Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
   name for Maieru
  Maieru
  Maieru is a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Anieş and Maieru.- People :* Octavian Utalea...
  
  Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania