# 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
* Mount Belle, a mountain in New Zealand