Belle (given name)

Belle is a French feminine given name meaning "beautiful", sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Isabella. It may refer to:

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 Cole (1845–1905), American singer
• Belle Cooledge (1884–1955), American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
• 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 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

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, from Charles Dickens's holiday-themed novel A Christmas Carol
• 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 Watling, from the novel Gone with the Wind and the film adaptation
• Belle the Sleeping Car, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express
• Belle, one of the title characters of Belle et Sébastien, a French children's novel by Cécile Aubry
• Belle, one of Snoopy's siblings from the comic strip Peanuts
• Belle, a big blue fire fighting steam locomotive in Thomas & Friends