Bellman

Bellman may refer to:

• Town crier, an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements
• Bellhop, a hotel porter
• Bellman (surname)
• Bellman (diving), a standby diver and diver's attendant
• Bellman hangar, a prefabricated, portable aircraft hangar
• Bellman's Head, a headland point in Stonehaven Bay, Scotland

Arts

• The Bellman (film), a 1945 French drama film
• The Bellman (character), a character in the Thursday Next novels
• "Bellman", a character in Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
• Bellman Prize, a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy
• Bellman joke, a type of Swedish joke
• Zvončari, a Croatian folk custom

Sciences

• Bellman equation, a condition for optimality in dynamic programming
• Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation, a condition for optimality of a control with respect to a loss function
• Bellman–Ford algorithm, a method for finding shortest paths

See also

• Belman (disambiguation)