Belle may refer to: * Belle (''Beauty and the Beast'') *

Belle (given name) Belle is a feminine given name meaning "beautiful". It is often used to refer to a beautiful or very attractive young woman. People * Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author * Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and a ...

, a list of people and fictional characters *

Belle (surname) Belle is a surname. Notable people with the Belle surname: * Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734), French portrait artist * Albert Belle (born 1966), American retired Major League Baseball player * Anne Belle (1935–2003), documentary filmmaker * Ano ...

, a list of people

Brands and enterprises

Belle Air Belle Air Sh.p.k (stylized as ''belleair'') was a privately owned Albanian low-cost airline headquartered in Tirana. History Belle Air was founded in 2005. It ceased operations on 24 November 2013 stating economic difficulties. Their fleet has ...

, a former airline with headquarters in Tirana, Albania *

Belle Air Europe Belle Air Europe was a privately owned low-cost airline, founded in 2009 as a subsidiary by Belle Air, having its head office in Ancona, Italy. On 26 November 2013 Belle Air Europe ceased operations due to financial difficulties, just two days aft ...

, a subsidiary of Belle Air in the Kosovo *

Belle Baby Carriers Belle Baby Carriers is a privately held company that designs and manufactures a new form of front baby carrier.Boulder County Business Report (Feb. 2, 2007) Belle was founded in 2006, and has quickly grown to sell its carriers in over 250 stores ...

, 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 is a Japanese film director and animator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy Awards for his eighth film '' Mirai''. Life and career Early life and initial work at Toei Animat ...

* ''

Belle's ''Belle's'' is an American sitcom that ran on TV One from February 1 until March 1, 2013. Premise The series encompasses the Cooper family who owns and operates an upscale soul food restaurant located in Atlanta. The series also encompasses wido ...

'', 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 ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' ( ...

'' * ''Belle'', a 1961 musical by

Wolf Mankowitz Cyril Wolf Mankowitz (7 November 1924 – 20 May 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter. He is particularly known for three novels— ''Make Me an Offer'' (1952), '' A Kid for Two Farthings'' (1953) and ''My Old Man's a Dustma ...

(lyrics) and

Monty Norman Monty Norman (''né'' Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was a British composer, musician and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the "James Bond Theme", first heard in th ...

(music) * "Belle", a 1977 song written by

Al Green Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including " Take Me to the River", ...

, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.

Places

Belle, Flanders Bailleul (; ''Belle'' in Dutch) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is located in French Flanders, from the Belgian border and northwest of Lille. Population Heraldry Media Bailleul is the birthplace of French film ...

or Bailleul, Nord, a commune in France *

Belle, Udupi Belle (also known as Bollay) is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India.Village code=01308800 It is located in the Udupi taluk of Udupi district. The village is known for its historic Moodu-Belle Mahalingeshwara Temple dedicated to ...

, a village in India *

Belle, Missouri Belle is a city in northeast Maries County and extending north into southeast Osage County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 1,381 at the 2020 census. The Osage County portion of Belle is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Me ...

, a town in the United States *

Belle Township, Holt County, Nebraska Belle Township is one of thirty-seven townships in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 41 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 41. See also *County government in Nebraska County government ...

, United States *

Belle, West Virginia Belle is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,171 at the 2020 census. Belle was incorporated on December 13, 1958 by the Kanawha County Circuit Court. It is the home of t ...

, a town in the United States

Railway trains

* ''

Bournemouth Belle The ''Bournemouth Belle'' was a British named train run by the Southern Railway from 1931 until nationalisation in 1948 (with a break for the war until 1947) and subsequently by British Railways until it was withdrawn on 9 July 1967. The tr ...

'', a named train run by the Southern Railway (Great Britain) from 1931 until 1948 * ''

Brighton Belle The ''Brighton Belle'' was a named train which was operated by the Southern Railway and subsequently by British Rail from Victoria Station in London to Brighton, on the Sussex coast. Commissioned as the flagship of the Southern Railway's ...

'', a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway * ''

Devon Belle The ''Devon Belle'' was a luxury express passenger train in England which ran between London Waterloo station and Ilfracombe and Plymouth in Devon in the years from 1947 to 1954. The train The Southern Railway was anxious to encourage the resum ...

'', a passenger train operated by the Southern Railway and then British Railways from 1947 to 1954

Science and technology

Belle (chess machine) Belle was a chess computer developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. It won the ACM North American Computer Chess Cham ...

, an early chess computer *

Belle experiment The Belle experiment was a particle physics experiment conducted by the Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibarak ...

, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment * Belle, the current version of Nokia's

Symbian Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system A mobile operating system is an operating system for mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typic ...

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 * ''Belle'' of Louisville, a passenger steamer in the Kentucky, U.S. * ''Belle'' of Temagami, a passenger steamer in Ontario, Canada

Sports teams

* Battle Creek Belles, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1951–1952) *

Doncaster Belles Doncaster Rovers Belles Ladies Football Club, previously Doncaster Belles, is an English women's football club that currently plays in the , the fourth tier of women's football in England. The club's administration is based at the Eco Power St ...

, 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 The Racine Belles were one of the original teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League playing from through out of Racine, Wisconsin. The Belles won the league's first championship. The team played its home games at Horlick Fi ...

, a team of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943–1950)

Other uses

Belle (card game) {{About, the lottery game of Belle, the gambling game using cards also called Belle for short, Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un Belle is a lottery-like gambling game, similar to Biribi and Cavagnole, that was brought from Italy to Paris in the 17th cent ...

, a 17th-century gambling card game * ''Belle'' (magazine), an Australian design magazine *

Hurricane Belle Hurricane Belle was a strong tropical cyclone that caused moderate damage across the East Coast of the United States in August 1976. In late July, a tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa. Traversing the Atlantic Ocean for mor ...

, a storm of the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season