Belle (given name)
Belle is a French feminine given name meaning "beautiful", sometimes a short form of Isabella. It may refer to:People
- Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott, American author
- Belle Baker, American singer and actress
- Belle Baranceanu, American artist
- Belle Benchley, American director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953
- Belle Bennett, American stage and screen actress
- Isabella Belle Boyd, Confederate spy during the American Civil War
- Belle Brezing, American brothel owner, believed to be the model for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind
- Belle Chrystall, British actress
- Belle Cole, American singer
- Belle Cooledge, American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
- Belle Gunness, Norwegian-American female serial killer
- Belle Kinney Scholz, Euro-American sculptor
- Belle Goshorn MacCorkle, American former First Lady of West Virginia
- Belle Mitchell, American film actress
- Belle Montrose, Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer born Isabelle Donohue
- Isabella Belle Moore, Scottish freestyle swimmer
- Belle Moskowitz, political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith
- Belle Perez, stage name of Maribel Pérez, Flemish musician and songwriter
- Belle L. Pettigrew, American educator, missionary
- Belle Reynolds, American heroine of the American Civil War
- Belle Hunt Shortridge, American author
- Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner, American businesswoman
- Belle Starr, American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr
- Belle Story, American vaudeville performer and singer
- Belle Fligelman Winestine American writer and suffragist
Fictional characters
- Belle, from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast
- Belle, from the 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast, based on the fairy tale
- Belle , a character from the ABC television series Once Upon a Time
- Belle Black, from the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Belle Dingle, from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Belle Dupree, from the CBS sitcom Alice
- Belle Taylor, from the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away
- Belle the Sleeping Car, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express
- Belle Fontiere, Lucks' right-hand girl, Tari's rival and secondary antagonist of the Meta Runner internet series
