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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950170-24-082731
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240709
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240710
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240710

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Lieser Brian
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001967061
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-12561
		FILM NUMBER:		241110369

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O BELDEN INC.
		STREET 2:		1 N. BRENTWOOD BLVD., 15TH FLOOR
		CITY:			SAINT LOUIS
		STATE:			MO
		ZIP:			63105

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BELDEN INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000913142
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	DRAWING AND INSULATING NONFERROUS WIRE [3357]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		IRS NUMBER:				363601505
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1 NORTH BRENTWOOD BLVD
		STREET 2:		15TH FLOOR
		CITY:			ST. LOUIS
		STATE:			MO
		ZIP:			63105
		BUSINESS PHONE:		314-854-8000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1 NORTH BRENTWOOD BLVD
		STREET 2:		15TH FLOOR
		CITY:			ST. LOUIS
		STATE:			MO
		ZIP:			63105

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BELDEN CDT INC.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20040716

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CABLE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19931006
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        <issuerName>BELDEN INC.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>BDC</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <officerTitle>EVP, Indust. Automation Solut.</officerTitle>
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                <value>2024-07-09</value>
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                    <value>By 401(k) Plan</value>
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        <footnote id="F1">Shares acquired through the Belden Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the &quot;Plan&quot;).  The Plan is broadly available to employees of Belden Inc. and its subsidiaries.  Pursuant to the terms of the Plan, the purchase price is 85% of the lesser of (i) the price at the beginning of the offering period (January 1, 2024) or (ii) the price at the end of the offering period (June 30, 2024).  Employees elect their level of participation and the purchases are funded via payroll deductions through the offering period.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Brian E. Anderson, attorney-in-fact for Brian Lieser</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2024-07-10</signatureDate>
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  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">RULE 144 AND SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Brian E. Anderson as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(1)</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 144, ID, 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of Belden Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#34;Company&#34;), with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges and the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the &#34;Securities Act&#34;), or Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the &#34;Exchange Act&#34;);</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(2)</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(3)</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The undersigned acknowledges that:</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(1)</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(2)</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">any documents prepared and/or executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(3)     neither the Company nor such attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:6.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">(4)     this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The undersigned hereby gives and grants the foregoing attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to such attorney-in-fact.</font></p>
  <p style="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman;min-width:fit-content;">	</font><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 15th day of February, 2023.</font></p>
  <p style="margin-left:46.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">/s/ Brian Lieser</font></p>
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  <p style="margin-left:46.667%;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;"><font style="color:#000000;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Brian Lieser</font></p>
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