Belle (given name)
Belle is a French feminine given name meaning "beautiful". It is often used to refer to a beautiful or very attractive young woman.
People
- Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author
- Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and actress
- Belle Baranceanu (1902–1988), American artist
- Belle Benchley (1882–1972), American director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953
- Belle Bennett (1891–1932), American stage and screen actress
- Isabella Belle Boyd (1843–1900), Confederate spy during the American Civil War
- Belle Brezing (1860–1940), American brothel owner, believed to be the model for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind
- Belle Chrystall (1910–2003), British actress
- Belle Chuo (born 1986), Taiwanese actress
- Belle Cole (1845–1905), American singer
- Belle Cooledge (1884–1955), American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
- Belle Delphine (1999-), British Internet celebrity
- Belle Gunness (1859–1908), Norwegian-American female serial killer
- Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959), Euro-American sculptor
- Belle Goshorn MacCorkle (1841–1923), American former First Lady of West Virginia
- Belle Mitchell (1889–1979), American film actress
- Belle Montrose (1886–1963), Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer born Isabelle Donohue
- Isabella Belle Moore (1894–1975), Scottish freestyle swimmer
- Belle Moskowitz (1877–1933), political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith
- Belle Perez, stage name of Maribel Pérez (born 1976), Flemish musician and songwriter
- Belle L. Pettigrew (1839–1912), American educator, missionary
- Belle Reynolds (1840–1937), American heroine of the American Civil War
- Belle Hunt Shortridge (1858 – 1893), American author
- Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman
- Belle Starr (1848–1889), American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr
- Belle Story (c. 1887 - ?), American vaudeville performer and singer
- Belle Fligelman Winestine (1891-1985) American writer and suffragist
Fictional characters
- Belle, from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast
- Belle (Disney), from the 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast, based on the fairy tale
- Belle (Once Upon a Time) (maiden name French, married name Gold), 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
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