belle

Belle may refer to: a) a terrifically beautiful person (French origin - belle - Beautiful) b) a female given name

Aircraft

• Memphis Belle (B-17), a World War II bomber

Business

• Belle Baby Carriers, a U.S. baby carrier manufacturer
• Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer

Comics

• Belle (Peanuts), is character in the Peanuts comic strip

Computers and software

• Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
• Belle, a slang word in the RBAP online role-playing game
• Southern Belle (game), a computer game

Fiction

• Belle et Sébastien, a French children's story

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 de jour, 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

Magazines

• Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine

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'

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
• Belle (singer), a British singer-songwriter
• Belle Gunness (1859-c. 1931), a Norwegian-American female serial killer

Belle: Proclaimed ruler of Ireland

Physics

• Belle Experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment

Places

• Bailleul, Nord, a town in France whose original Dutch name was Belle
• Belle, Missouri, a town in the United States
• Belle, West Virginia, a town in the United States
• Belle Isle, one of several places

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.

Ships

• La Belle, 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

Belle may also refer to:

• Belle G

See also

• Bel
• Bell
• BEL
• Pelé,Brazilian former football player

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