List of famous trinities, trios, triplets, or threesomes

The following is a partial list of famous famous trinities, trios, troikas, triumvirates, triplets or threesomes — groups of three of anything:

People and characters

• The Andrews Sisters
• April, May, and June Duck

• The Bee Gees
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Charlie's Angels
• The Charmed Ones (Charmed)
• Cream
• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Dahm triplets
• Del Rubio triplets
• Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen
• Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
• Gödel, Escher, Bach
• The Goodies: Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Bill Oddie

• Huey, Dewey and Louie
• Kirk, Spock, and McCoy
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie
• Marx, Engels and Lenin (a "communist trinity").
• Mary, Mungo, and Midge (children's cartoon characters)
• The Marx Brothers
• Peter, Paul and Mary
• Solid, Liquid and Solidus Snake; The Sons of Big Boss
• The Three Musketeers
• The Three Stooges
• The Three Tenors
• The Three Wise Men

• The three witches in Macbeth
• Tinker and Evers and Chance double play makers of the Cubs
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (characters in a poem)
• Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner (from the Animaniacs)
• ZZ Top

Others

• Birth, Life, and Death
• Day, Night, and Dusk
• The three canticles of "The Divine Comedy"
• Duty, Honor, and Country (United States Military Academy at West Point motto)
• Faith, Hope, and Charity, the three theological virtues
• The Fates
• Father, Son, and Holy Ghost [also Holy Spirit] (Christian Trinity)
• The Furies
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
• The Hitchhiker's Trilogy (a "trilogy" of five)
• Holy Trinity (Trinitarian God the Father, the God the Son, and the Holy Spirit)
• The holy trinity of cuisines
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
• Lather, rinse, repeat
• Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

• Mitsubishi (means three diamonds in Japanese)
• Movie trilogy
• My Three Sons
• Newton's laws of motion
• Primary colors
• The Punic Wars
• Ridings of Yorkshire (North, East, West)
• Rush
• Samsung (means three stars in Korean)
• Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll
• "Three Blind Mice"
• Three branches of the U.S. Government
• The Three Colors Trilogy (French films)

• The Three Graces
• The Three Heads of Cerberus
• The Three Jewel Temples of Korea
• The Three Jewels
• The Three Kingdoms (when China had three rival kingdoms)
• Three Laws of Robotics (later extended to four)
• Three laws of thermodynamics (later extended to four)
• The Three Little Pigs
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)
• The Three Ms
• Three Rings of the Elves
• The Three Rs
• Three strikes law
• The Three Taverns
• The Three Unities
• The Three Wise Monkeys ("Hear no evil...")
• Three-peat
• Time, space, and gravity

• The Tricolour (flag of France and many other countries)
• Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)
• Triple Alliance
• Triple border
• Triple Crown
• Triple Goddess
• The Triumvirates of ancient Rome (First Triumvirate and Second Triumvirate)
• Trivium

See also

• threesome, triad, trinity (disambiguation), trio, trilogy, triplet, triptych, triumvirate, troika
• List of movie trilogies