Belle

Belle may refer to:

People

• Belle (surname)
• Belle (given name)
• Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author
• Isabella Marie Belle Boyd (1843–1900), Confederate spy during the American Civil War
• Belle Montrose (1886–1963), Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer born Isabelle Donohue
• Isabella Belle Moore (1894–1975), Scottish freestyle swimmer
• Belle Perez, stage name of Maribel Pérez (born 1976), Flemish musician and songwriter
• Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman
• Belle Starr (1848–1889), American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr

Places

• 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, Udupi, a village in India
• Belle, the former Dutch name for the commune Bailleul, Nord in France
• Belle Isle (disambiguation)
• Belle River (disambiguation)

Businesses

• Belle Air, a former low-cost airline with headquarters in Tirana, Albania
• Belle Air Europe, a subsidiary of Belle Air in the Kosovo
• Belle Baby Carriers, a U.S. baby carrier manufacturer
• Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer

Computers and software

• Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
• Belle, the current version of Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system

Films

• Belle (1973 film), a Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux
• Belle (2013 film), a British film directed by Amma Asante

Music and musical theater

• Belle (album), a 2011 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga
• "Belle" (Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou song), from the 1998 musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris (1831)
• "Belle", a 1961 musical by Wolf Mankowitz
• "Belle" (Disney song), a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Disney's 1991 hit film Beauty and the Beast
• "Belle", a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.

Railroad 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

Ships

• Belle of Louisville, a passenger steamer in the U.S. state of Kentucky
• Belle of Temagami, a passenger steamer in Ontario, Canada
• La Belle (ship), one of French explorer La Salle's ships lost in 1686 during a 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

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

Other uses

• Southern belle
• Hurricane Belle, in the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season
• Belle experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment
• Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine
• Belle (Disney), a fictional character who appears in the Walt Disney Pictures' Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Belle (Once Upon a Time), a fictional character who appears in the ABC television drama Once Upon a Time (2011)

See also

• Belle's, an American comedy TV series which premiered in 2013
• "Belles belles belles" (musical), a 2003 musical by Redha
• La Belle (disambiguation)
• Bel (disambiguation)
• Bell (disambiguation)
• BEL (disambiguation)