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Rita is a common given name, and may refer to:
- 1180 Rita, an asteroid
- 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' 'and rita in flushed away.
- 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
- 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.
[edit] People
- Rita Buglass Gluck, U.S. song writer
- Rita of Cascia (St. Rita) (1381-1457), pre-eminent Augustinian saint
- 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 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
- Rita referring to a branch of stores selling their specialty brand of italian ice. Most commonly found in South Central Pennsylvania
[edit] Fictional characters
[edit] Organizations
- RIT Ambulance (RITA), a volunteer ambulance at the Rochester Institute of Technology
[edit] See also
