Belle may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Belle (given name) Belle is a feminine given name meaning "beautiful". It may also be a short form (hypocorism) of Isabella (given name), Isabella, Isabel or variations thereof. People * Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author * Belle Baker (1 ...

, a list of people and fictional characters * Belle (surname), a list of people *

Southern belle "Southern belle" () is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman of European heritage in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman. Characteristics Th ...

, a stock character representing a young woman of the American South's upper class *

Belle (Disney character) Belle is a fictional character in Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast (franchise), Beauty and the Beast'' franchise. First appearing in the Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), 1991 animated film, Belle is the Bibliophi ...

, the heroine and protagonist of

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

’s 1991

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

winning animated film ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

''.

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 . Their fleet has been returned to the lessors ...

, 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 a ...

, 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 store ...

, an American baby carrier manufacturer *

Belle International Belle International Holdings Limited is a women's shoe retailer in China, with 22% of the domestic market share. It is engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sales of footwear products. As of its IPO in May 2007, the company had ...

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

(lyrics) and

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

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

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

, 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 f ...

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 Kaup taluk of Udupi district. The village is known for its historic Moodu-Belle Mahalingeshwara Temple dedicated to Sh ...

, 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, down from 1,545 in 2010. The Osage County portion of Belle is part of the J ...

, 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 38 at the 2020 census. A 2023 estimate placed the township's population at 38. See also *County government in Nebraska County govern ...

, 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 ...

, a town in the United States *

Belle River (disambiguation) Belle River may refer to: Canada * Belle River, Ontario Belle River is a community in Lakeshore, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. The population was 9,650 as of 2015. Geography The community is located in northern Lakeshore in Essex Count ...

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 (UK), Southern Railway and subsequently by British Railways from London Victoria station, Victoria Station in London to Brighton, on the Sussex coast. Commiss ...

'', 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 eager to resume normal leisur ...

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

Science and technology

Belle (chess machine) Belle is a chess computer that was 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 ...

, 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, Ibara ...

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

Symbian Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. Symbian OS ...

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 Doncaster Rovers Belles Ladies Football Club, previously Doncaster Belles, is an England, English women's association football, women's football club that currently plays in the , the fourth tier of women's football in England. The club's admi ...

, 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 F ...

, 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 more ...

, a storm of the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season *

Mount Belle Mount Belle is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Belle is part of the Wick Mountains and is situated above the east portal of Homer Tunnel in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National ...

, a mountain in New Zealand