List of famous trinities, trios, triplets, or threesomes
The following is a list of famous famous trinities, trios, troikas, triumvirates, triplets or threesomes--groups of three people (living, dead or fictional), places, or things, unless identified otherwise.
- The Bee Gees
- Birth, Life, and Death
- mobile suit pilot team (Gaia, Ortega, and Mash) in Mobile Suit Gundam
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Charlie's Angels
- The Charmed Ones (Charmed)
- Cream
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- The Dahm triplets
- Day, Night, and Dusk
- The Del Rubio triplets
- The Divine Comedy
- Duty, Honor, and Country (United States Military Academy at West Point motto)
- Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen
- Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
- Faith, Hope, and Charity, the three theological virtues. ("Charity" is given as "Love" in some translations.)
- The Fates
- Father Time, Son, Spirit
- First Triumvirate
- The Furies
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
- The Goodies
- The Goons (after Michael Bentine's departure)
- The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams (later extended to five books while ironically retaining the "trilogy" label)
- Holy Trinity
- Huey, Dewey, and Louie
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kirk, Spock, and McCoy (from the original Star Trek series)
- Kukla, Fran and Ollie
- Lather, rinse, repeat
- Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité French motto
- Mary, Mungo, and Midge (children's cartoon characters)
- The Marx Brothers
- Movie trilogy
- My Three Sons
- NBC Mystery Movie (originally featuring McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan and Wife)
- Newton's laws of motion
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- The Punic Wars
- Red, green, and blue (additive primary colors)
- Red, yellow, and blue (primary pigments)
- Ridings of Yorkshire
- Rush
- Second Triumvirate
- Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll
- Three-act structure
- Three Blind Mice
- The three branches of the United States 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)
- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
- Three laws of thermodynamics (later extended to four by adding a "zeroth" law)
- The Three Little Pigs
- Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)
- The Three Ms
- The Three Musketeers
- Three Rings of the Elves
- The Three Rs
- The Three Stooges
- Three strikes law
- The Three Tenors
- The Three Unities
- The Three Wise Men
- The Three Wise Monkeys ("Hear no evil...")
- The three witches in Macbeth
- Threepeat
- Time, space, and gravity
- Tinker and Evers and Chance
- The Tricolor (flag of France and many other countries)
- Trimurti
- Triple Alliance
- Triple border
- Triple Crown
- Triple Goddess
- Les Triplettes de Belleville (French animated movie, aka Belleville Rendez-vous)
- Trivium
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- ZZ Top
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