Belle may refer to:

People and fictional characters

  • Belle (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
  • Belle (surname), a list of people
  • Southern belle, a stock character representing a young woman of the American South's upper class
  • Belle (Disney character), the heroine and protagonist of the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast

Brands and enterprises

  • Belle Air, a former airline with headquarters in Tirana, Albania
  • Belle Air Europe, a subsidiary of Belle Air in the Kosovo
  • Belle Baby Carriers, an American baby carrier manufacturer
  • Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer

Film and television

  • Belle (1973 film), a Belgian-French drama film by André Delvaux
  • Belle (2013 film), a British film by Amma Asante
  • Belle (2021 film), a Japanese animated film by Mamoru Hosoda
  • Belle's, an American comedy TV series that premiered in 2013

Music

  • Belle (album), a 2011 album by Bic Runga
  • "Belle" (Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou song), a song from the 1998 musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris
  • "Belle" (Disney song), a song written for Disney's 1991 film Beauty and the Beast
  • Belle (2014 soundtrack), the soundtrack for the 2013 British drama film Belle
  • Belle (2021 soundtrack), the soundtrack for the 2021 Japanese animated film Belle
  • Belle, a 1961 musical by Wolf Mankowitz (lyrics) and Monty Norman (music)
  • "Belle", a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.

Places

  • Belle, Flanders or Bailleul, Nord, a commune in France
  • Belle, Udupi, a village in India
  • Belle, Missouri, a town in the United States
  • Belle Township, Holt County, Nebraska, United States
  • Belle, West Virginia, a town in the United States
  • Belle River (disambiguation)

Railway trains

  • Bournemouth Belle, a named train run by the Southern Railway (Great Britain) from 1931 until 1948
  • Brighton Belle, a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
  • Devon Belle, a passenger train operated by the Southern Railway and then British Railways from 1947 to 1954

Science and technology

  • Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
  • Belle experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment
  • Belle, the current version of Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system

Ships

  • La Belle (ship), a ship lost in 1686 during a French colonization attempt in Texas
  • USCS Belle (1848), a survey ship in service with the United Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857
  • USS Belle (1864), a Union Navy steamer in the American Civil War

Sports teams

  • Battle Creek Belles, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1951–1952)
  • Doncaster Belles, now Doncaster Rovers Belles L.F.C., an English semi-professional women's football club
  • Memphis Belles, member of the Independent Women's Football League
  • Muskegon Belles, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1953)
  • Racine Belles, a team of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943–1950)

Other uses

  • Belle (card game), a 17th-century gambling card game
  • Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine
  • Hurricane Belle, a storm of the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Mount Belle, a mountain in New Zealand

See also

  • Belle Époque
  • Bel (disambiguation)
  • BEL (disambiguation)
  • Bell (disambiguation)
  • La Belle (disambiguation)
  • Belle Isle (disambiguation)
  • Belles belles belles (musical), a 2003 musical by Redha