Bellman may refer to:

  • Town crier, an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements
  • Bellhop, a hotel porter
  • Bellman (surname)
  • Bellman (diving), a standby diver and diver's attendant
  • Bellman hangar, a prefabricated, portable aircraft hangar
  • Bellman's Head, a headland point in Stonehaven Bay, Scotland

Arts

  • The Bellman (film), a 1945 French drama film
  • The Bellman (literary magazine), a 1906–1919 American periodical
  • The Bellman (character), a character in the Thursday Next novels
  • "Bellman", a character in Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
  • Bellman Prize, a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy
  • Bellman joke, a type of Swedish joke
  • Zvončari, a Croatian folk custom

Sciences

  • Bellman equation, a condition for optimality in dynamic programming
  • Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation, a condition for optimality of a control with respect to a loss function
  • Bellman–Ford algorithm, a method for finding shortest paths

See also

  • Belman (disambiguation)