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)