The Gang of Four was 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.
- 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.
Entertainment and leisure
- 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
Technology
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, or to its four authors, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
- 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.
