Belle

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Belle may refer to:

• Southern belle, a refined woman (from the French belle, "beautiful")
  • Southern Belle (KCS), a passenger train operated by the Kansas City Southern Railway
  • Southern Belle (LBSC), a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
  • Southern Belle (game), a computer game
• Belle, Missouri, a town in the United States
• Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
• Belle (Peanuts), is character in the Peanuts comic strip
• Belle de jour, a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve
• Celebration Belle, a riverboat
• Belle Gunness (1859-c1931), a Norwegian-American female serial killer
• Memphis Belle (B-17), a World War II bomber, or one of two films about her:
  • Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the real aircraft and crew on its final mission
  • Memphis Belle (film), a 1990 fictionalized film inspired by the 1944 documentary
• Belle of Louisville, a restored Ohio/Mississippi River sternwheeler riverboat
• Northern Belle, a ship that ran aground near London in 1857
• Belle (Disney), the fictional heroine of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast
• Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine
• Belle, a musical alternatively titled 'The Ballad of Dr Crippen'
• Belle (singer), a British singer-songwriter
• "Belle" (song), a 1998 song by Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou
• Belle, A nice young woman living in Newcastle, Australia.

Belle may also refer to:

• Bailleul, Nord, a town in France whose original Dutch name was Belle
• Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734), a French portrait artist
• Belle Isle, one of several places
• Belle et Sébastien, a French children's story
• Belle & Sebastian, Scottish pop group named after the story
• Belle Experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment
• Belle, a slang word in the RBAP online role-playing game

[edit] See also

• La Belle
• Bel
• Bell
• BEL