Fab Five
Appearance
The Fab Five may refer to the following:
- Duran Duran, 1980s pop band
- The starters on the University of Michigan men's basketball team that played in the NCAA championship game as freshmen in 1992 and again as sophomores in 1993, losing both times:
- The five gay male regulars on the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
- Five midfielders for Australian Football League club Brisbane Lions:
The phrase is a play on the Fab Four, the famous nickname for The Beatles.
There is also a famous group of basketball players called the Fabulous Five who predated the Beatles by more than a decade. These players were the starters on the University of Kentucky men's basketball team that won the 1948 NCAA championship, as well as the 1948 Olympic basketball gold medal.
Finally, there is a Famous Five group of forwards who played Football for Edinburgh's Hibernian from 1949 to 1955.