'Rita' is a common given name, and may refer to:

★ 1180 Rita, an asteroid

★ Rita (genus), a genus of catfishes.

★ ''Educating Rita'', a stage comedy (1980) and film (1983)

★ "Lovely Rita", a song by The Beatles from the album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.''

★ Rita (album), an album by Portuguese singer Rita Guerra

★ 'Rita', a name on the list of tropical cyclone names for storms in the Atlantic Ocean

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★ Hurricane Rita, a major Category 5 and eighteenth storm in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season

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★ Tropical Storm Rita (disambiguation)

★ 'Rita', a shortened form of 'margarita'

★ RITA, ''Réseau intégré des transmissions automatiques'', "Integrated Network of Automatic Transmissions", a protected system of military transmissions first used in the French Army

★ Rita - Queen of Speed, a roller coaster at Alton Towers

★ Rita and Runt, a musical segment in the ''Animaniacs'' cartoon

★ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novel

★ Rita in Hinduism, "Universal law"

★ RITA Resistance Inside the Armies; Resister Inside the Armies; Resist Inside the Armies. Term invented by US Army Private Richard Perrin in September 1967. Became widely used during the Vietnam/American war. Later applied generally to Resistance Movements in many other armies.

★ 'RITA Award', the most prominent award in the genre of romantic fiction, presented by the Romance Writers of America and named after the organization's first president, Rita Clay Estrada.

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People

Fictional characters

Organizations

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People

★ Rita, Japanese singer, lyricist, voice actress

★ Rita Buglass Gluck, U.S. song writer

★ Rita of Cascia (St. Rita) (1381-1457), pre-eminent Augustinian saint

★ Rita Clay Estrada, American author and first president of the Romance Writers of America

★ Rita R. Colwell (born 1934), U.S. environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator

★ Rita Coolidge (born 1945), American singer

★ Rita Cosby (born 1964), former MSNBC news broadcaster

★ Rita Deverell (born 1945), Canadian television broadcaster and social activist

★ Rita Donagh (born 1939), British artist

★ Rita Dove (born 1952), U.S. African-American poet and author

★ Rita Guerra (born 1967), Portuguese singer

★ Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), American actress

★ Rita Johnston (born 1935), Canadian politician

★ Rita Kalmbach, former Canadian politician

★ Rita Kleinstein (born 1962), Israeli singer/actress known as "Rita"

★ Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909), Italian-American neurologist

★ Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), prolific American writer and social activist

★ Rita Marley (born 1946) Jamaican singer, widow of Bob Marley

★ Rita Moreno (born 1931), Puerto Rico-American Academy Award-winning actress

★ Rita Rudner (born 1956), American comedian and writer

★ Rita Tushingham (born 1942), English actress

★ Rita Verdonk (born 1955), Dutch politician, former Minister of Integration and Immigration

★ Rita Wilson (born 1956), American actress and producer

Fictional characters

★ Rita Foster, a fictional character in the Canadian production ''Cypher (film)''

★ Rita Repulsa, a villain from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

★ Rita Skeeter, a fictional character from the Harry Potter series

★ Rita Stapleton, a fictional character from the CBS soap opera'' The Guiding Light'' from 1975 - 81

★ Rita, a fictional red fox from the Danish movie interprise Jungledyret Hugo

Organizations

★ RIT Ambulance (RITA), a volunteer ambulance at the Rochester Institute of Technology

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