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
Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman
Belle Starr (1848–1889), American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr
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 engine in Thomas & Friends
