Gang of Four (disambiguation)

The Gang of Four primarily refers to a group of Communist Party of China leaders who were arrested following the death of Mao Zedong.

It may also refer to:

Politics and history

In East Asia, the Gang of Four (or the Asian Tigers), referring to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong as newly industrialized countries with shared economic characteristics.
In British history, the Gang of Four were Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, and David Owen, the founders of the Social Democratic Party (UK).
In Australian politics, the Gang of Four were Democratic Senators Lyn Allison, Andrew Murray, Aden Ridgeway, and John Cherry, after they controversially toppled party leader Natasha Stott Despoja.
In Papua New Guinea, the Gang of Four were Sir Mekere Morauta, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, Sir Anthony Siaguru and Charles Lepani, four prominent civil service chiefs who had significant influence over public policy in the years after independence was granted in 1975.
In New York City, the Gang of Four (Harlem) was an African-American political coalition consisting of David Dinkins; Charles Rangel; Basil Paterson; and Percy Sutton.
Gang of Four (Seattle), refers to Bernie Whitebear, Bob Santos, Roberto Maestas, and Larry Gossett, minority rights activists and later administrators who founded Seattle's Minority Executive Directors's Coalition.
The "big four" Structuralist theorists: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan.

Gang of Four (band), an English post-punk rock band formed in the late 1970s.
In comic books, the Gang of Four was a subset of the Oriental Heroes. They consisted of Baldie (the leader of the group), Four-Eyed Ming, One-Eyed Draco, and Heartbreak Kid.
Gang of Four, the villains in the over-the-top violent Chinese film, Riki-Oh
Gang of Four (game), a card game based on the shifting politics of the Cultural Revolution period in Chinese history.
Gang of Four (film) (La bande des quatre), a 1988 French film directed by Jacques Rivette
Gang of Four (character structure), a principal-character breakout pattern sometimes seen in (or applied to) comedies or dramas (e.g., Seinfeld).
Gang of Four (book), a book by Liz Byrski

Gang of Four (software) (GoF), refers to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, the authors of the popular book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software; the term also sometimes refers to the book itself
One of the Local Management Interface (LMI) standards for Wide Area Networking, developed and adopted by Cisco Systems, StrataCom, DEC and Nortel Networks
Group of Four (Australia), the peering arrangement in Australia between communication companies Telstra, Optus, MCI and AAPT.

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