Bellman
# 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
