Belle (given name)

Belle is a feminine given name meaning "beautiful". It may also be a short form (hypocorism) of Isabella, Isabel or variations thereof.

People

 * Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author
 * Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and actress
 * Belle Baranceanu (1902–1988), American artist
 * Belle Barth (1911–1971), Jewish-American entertainer
 * 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 (born 1999), South African internet celebrity
 * Belle Gibson (born 1991) Australian convicted scammer
 * Belle Gunness (1859–1908), Norwegian-American female serial killer
 * Belle R. Harrison (1856–1940), American author
 * Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959), Euro-American sculptor
 * Belle Goshorn MacCorkle (1841–1923), American former First Lady of West Virginia
 * Belle Mariano (born 2002), Filipina actress, model and singer
 * 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 character), 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 Fotniere, a character from the Meta Runner and SMG4 series
 * Belle the Sleeping Car, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express
 * Belle, a character in The Muppet Christmas Carol
 * Belle Fontiere, Lucks' right-hand girl, Tari's rival and secondary antagonist of the Meta Runner internet series
 * Belle the Tinkerer, from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics published by IDW