Belle

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 Disney’s 1991 Academy Award winning animated 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

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