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Bella Ranee Campen

Bella Ranee Campen (ราณี แคมเปน) is a Thai-English actress, born in 1989, best known for playing Mae Ying Karakade in the 2018 period drama Love Destiny.

Bella Shepard

Bella Shepard (born 2001, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American actress known for Blake Navarro in Wolf Pack (2023) and cadet Genesis Lythe in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026), after debuting in Oz the Great and Powerful.

Bella Shmurda

Bella Shmurda (Abiola Ahmed Akinbiyi) is a Nigerian street-pop singer-songwriter from Ikorodu, Lagos, known for "Vision 2020" and "Cash App" and founder of the label Dangbana Republik.

Bella Swan

Bella Swan is the narrator-protagonist of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels (2005 onward), a Phoenix teenager who moves to Forks, Washington, loves vampire Edward Cullen, and is played by Kristen Stewart in the five 2008-2012 films.

Bella Thorne

Bella Thorne (Annabella Avery Thorne), American actress, singer, director, and author born 1997 in Pembroke Pines, Florida; Disney Channel star of Shake It Up (2010-2013) as CeCe Jones, later known for The DUFF, Midnight Sun, her Pornhub film Her & Him, and books including Autumn Falls.

Bella White

Bella White (Isabel Farley White) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary blending bluegrass, Americana, and country. Albums: Just Like Leaving (2020), Among Other Things (2023), A Sign In The Weather (2026), all on Rounder Records; "Burn Me Once" appears on The Hunger Games soundtrack.

Belladonna (actress)

Belladonna, stage name of Michelle Anne Sinclair (born 1981, Biloxi, Mississippi), is an American former adult film performer, director, and producer; founder of Belladonna Entertainment, Evil Angel's first female director, AVN Hall of Fame inductee (2011), and later actress in Inherent Vice (2014).

Belladonna of Sadness (悲しみのベラドンナ)

Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ, Kanashimi no Beradonna), also called Belladonna, is Eiichi Yamamoto's 1973 Mushi Production anime, the final Animerama film, adapted from Michelet's La Sorcière, told largely through panned watercolor paintings, a 1973 box-office failure restored in 4K in 2016.

Bellagio (resort)

Bellagio is a luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, opened in 1998 by Steve Wynn and known for the Fountains of Bellagio.

Bellagio, Lombardy

Bellagio, Lombardy: the 'pearl of Lake Como', a resort town on the promontory between the lake's two southern arms, with Villa Serbelloni, Villa Melzi, the 12th-century San Giacomo basilica, and ferry links to Varenna and Menaggio.

Bellaire High School (Texas)

Bellaire High School, a Houston ISD public high school in Bellaire, Texas, opened in 1955, became Texas's first IB Diploma Programme school in 1979, and earned a 2026 TEA rating of A (score 94).

Bellamy salute

Bellamy salute: the straight-arm gesture accompanying the US Pledge of Allegiance, 1892–1942, named for pledge author Francis Bellamy; replaced by hand-over-heart by Congress on December 22, 1942, due to its resemblance to the Nazi salute.

Bellamy Young

Bellamy Young, stage name of Amy Maria Young, is an American actress, singer, and producer known for playing President Mellie Grant on Scandal from 2012 to 2018.

BellaNaija

BellaNaija is a Nigerian lifestyle and entertainment media platform founded in 2006 by Uche Pedro and based in Lagos, known for documenting African weddings, fashion, and celebrity culture.

Bellara power station

Bellara power station, also known as the Jijel Combined Cycle Power Plant, is a 1,400 MW combined-cycle gas-fired power station near El Milia in Jijel province, Algeria.

Bellarmine College Preparatory

Bellarmine College Preparatory (San Jose, California) is an all-boys Jesuit high school founded in 1851 as Santa Clara College, renamed in 1928, with about 1,650 students, $33,575 tuition, and strong robotics and speech and debate programs. Distinct from Bellarmine University and Tacoma's Bellarmine Prep.

Bellary Thermal Power Station

Bellary Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Bellary district, Karnataka, India, owned by Karnataka Power Corporation Limited with an installed capacity of 1,700 MW from three units.

Bellator MMA

Bellator MMA, American MMA promotion founded in 2008 by Bjorn Rebney with a tournament format; long the No. 2 promotion behind the UFC; acquired by the PFL from Paramount Global in November 2023 and retired as a brand in 2025.

Bellatrix Lestrange

Bellatrix Lestrange (ベラトリックス・レストレンジ), née Black, is a Harry Potter Death Eater, sister of Andromeda and Narcissa, wife of Rodolphus, Voldemort's most devoted follower, killed by Molly Weasley; portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter.

Bellcrank

A bellcrank is a two-armed lever that pivots on a fixed point to change the direction of a force, typically through 90 degrees, used in aircraft controls and car suspensions.

BELLE

BELLE is an open-source Chinese instruction-tuning dataset family and finetuned model series by Lianjia Tech, released from 2022, built solely from ChatGPT-generated data on models like BLOOM and LLaMA.

Belle (2013 film)

Belle is a 2013 British period drama by Amma Asante, written by Misan Sagay, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle; inspired by the 1779 Zoffany portrait, released 2014, budget $10.9m, Metacritic 64.

Belle (music)

Belle (벨) is the stage name of Shim Hye-won, a Korean-American singer who debuted in 2023 as main vocalist of the girl group KISS OF LIFE.

Belle (竜とそばかすの姫) (2021 film)

Belle (竜とそばかすの姫) is Mamoru Hosoda's 2021 Studio Chizu anime film about Suzu, a 17-year-old who becomes the singer Belle in the virtual world U; 6.6 billion yen Japanese gross, Cannes Premiere 2021.

Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian, also styled Belle & Sebastian, are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996 around Stuart Murdoch, known for Tigermilk, If You're Feeling Sinister, and literate chamber pop.

Belle Burden

Belle Burden, full name Flobelle Fairbanks Burden, is an American author and attorney known for her debut memoir Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, a 2026 number 1 bestseller.

Belle da Costa Greene

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), born Belle Marion Greener, was J. Pierpont Morgan's personal librarian from 1905 and the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (1924–1948); an African American who passed as white.

Belle de Jour (film)

Belle de Jour (Belle de jour) is Luis Buñuel's 1967 Franco-Italian drama starring Catherine Deneuve as Séverine, a surgeon's wife secretly working afternoons in a brothel; adapted from Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel, it won the 1967 Venice Golden Lion.

Belle Delphine

Belle Delphine, real name Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 1999, South Africa), is a UK-based cosplayer and OnlyFans creator famous for the 2019 $30 GamerGirl Bath Water stunt, ahegao e-girl persona, Instagram bans, and reported £1 million monthly OnlyFans earnings.

Belle Dingle

Belle Dingle (Tinkerbelle Lisa Dingle, later Belle King) is a fictional Emmerdale character born on screen Christmas Day 1998 to Zak and Lisa Dingle, played by Eden Taylor-Draper since 2005, known for the Gemma Andrews killing, schizophrenia storyline, and abusive marriage to Tom King.