List of famous trinities, trios, triplets, or threesomes
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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 Bee Gees
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Charlie's Angels
- The Charmed Ones (Charmed)
- Cream
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Nicole, Erica, and Jaclyn Dahm
- Del Rubio triplets
- Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen
- Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- The Goodies: Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Bill Oddie
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- 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
- NKVD troika
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- Rush
- Solid, Liquid and Solidus Snake; The Sons of Big Boss
- Three Comrades, a novell by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Three Musketeers
- The Three Stooges
- The Three Tenors
- The Three Wise Men
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The three witches in Macbeth.
- 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
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Mitsubishi logo.
- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
- Triphthong
- Triple Entente
- Triple Alliance
- Triple border
- Triple Crown
- Triple Goddess
- Tripoli, name of the capital of Libya and some other places (means three cities in Greek)
- The Triumvirates of ancient Rome (First Triumvirate and Second Triumvirate)
- Trivium