Belle
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Belle is the feminine form of the French word which means beautiful.
It may also refer to:
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[edit] Aircraft
- Memphis Belle (B-17), a World War II bomber
[edit] Business
- Belle Baby Carriers, a U.S. baby carrier manufacturer
- Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer
[edit] Comics
- Belle (Peanuts), is character in the Peanuts comic strip
[edit] Computers and software
- Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
- Southern Belle (game), a computer game
[edit] Fiction
- Belle (Disney), a fictional character from Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- Belle et Sébastien, a French children's story
[edit] Film
- Belle (1972 film), a 1972 film
- Belle (1973 film), a 1973 film
- Belle (1993 film), a 1993 film
- Belle (2004 film), a 2004 film
- Belle (2007 film), a 2007 film
- Belle (2010 film), a 2010 film
- Belle Black, a fictional character from the American soap opera, Days of our Lives
- Belle de jour (film), a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve
- Belle (Disney), the fictional heroine of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast
- Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the famed World War II B-17 bomber Memphis Belle and crew on its final mission
- Memphis Belle (film), a 1990 fictionalized film inspired by the 1944 documentary about the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle
[edit] Magazines
- Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine
[edit] Music
- Belle (Al Green song), a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.
- "Belle" (song), a 1998 song by Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou
- Belle & Sebastian, Scottish pop group named after the French children's story Belle et Sébastien
- 'Belle', a musical (circa 1961) alternatively titled 'The Ballad of Dr Crippen'
- 'Belle', An Academy Award nominated song from the movie, "Beauty and the Beast"
[edit] People
- Southern belle, a refined woman from the southern United States (from the French belle, "beautiful")
- Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734), a French portrait artist
- David Belle, a French actor
- Albert Belle, an American baseball player
- Lexi Belle, an American pornographic actor
- Belle Gunness (1859-c. 1931), a Norwegian-American female serial killer
- Camilla Belle Routh an American Actress
[edit] Physics
- Belle Experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment
[edit] Places
- Bailleul, Nord, a town in France whose original Dutch name was Belle
- Belle, Missouri, a town in the United States
- Belle Township, Holt County, Nebraska, a township in the United States
- Belle, West Virginia, a town in the United States
- Belle Isle (disambiguation), one of several places
- Belle, Udupi, a village in India
[edit] Railroads
- Southern Belle (KCS), a passenger train operated by the Kansas City Southern Railway
- Southern Belle (LBSC), a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
- Devon Belle, a passenger train with observation car operated by the Southern Railway and then British Railways, 1947 to 1954, the observation cars of which have been preserved
[edit] Ships
- La Belle (ship), one of French explorer La Salle's ships lost in 1686 during a colonization attempt in Texas.
- Belle of Louisville, a restored Ohio/Mississippi River sternwheeler riverboat
- Celebration Belle, a riverboat
- Northern Belle, a ship that ran aground near London in 1857
- USCS Belle (1848), a survey ship in service with the United Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857
[edit] See also
- Bel (disambiguation)
- Bell (disambiguation)
- BEL (disambiguation)
- Pelé, Brazilian former football player
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