Belle
Appearance
(Redirected from Belle (disambiguation))
Belle may refer to:
People and fictional characters
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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