Belle Isle is a large suburb 3 miles (5 km) south of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England.

The island was captured and held by British forces from 1761 to 1763 during the Seven Years' War, and this event inspired the naming of the Yorkshire settlement.

Belle Isle now consists largely of housing estates built on farming land by the local authority housing department during the clearance of slum dwellings and the expansion of Leeds in the early twentieth-century; some of these homes are now in private ownership.

The majority of the homes in Belle Isle are red brick semi-detached houses although this stock has been added to over the years.

In 2010 the Middleton Park ward which includes Belle Isle had 27487 inhabitants of which 52.2% were female and 47.8% male and 21.5% were aged 15 or under compared with an England average of 18.7%.

Merlyn Rees then changed its name to South Leeds High School.

Broomfield SILC - Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre, an all-age generic special school is on the Broom estate.

The England international rugby league players Garry Schofield, Jason Robinson and Sonny Nickle, Snatch singer Darren Britton and the philosopher Paul Crowther also grew up there and were pupils at Belle Isle Primary School.