Ritz

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Ritz or The Ritz can refer to:

Hotels

• Ritz Hotel, a hotel overlooking Green Park in London
• Hotel Ritz Madrid, a hotel in Madrid, Spain
• Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel brand

People

• César Ritz (1850–1915), hotelier
• Walter Ritz (1878–1909), theoretical physicist
• Rosalie Ritz (1923–), pioneering courtroom artist
• Gerry Ritz (1951–), Canadian federal politician
• David Ritz, author
• The Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s
• Ritz Malheur, a fictational character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Music

• "Puttin' on the Ritz", a popular song by Irving Berlin
• "Ritz" (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel song), a rock song by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
• The Ritz (quartet), a barbershop quartet that won the International Championship in 1991
• From The Ritz To The Rubble, song by Arctic Monkeys

Television, theatre, and films:

• The Ritz (TV series), a BBC television series in 1987
• The Ritz (play), a Broadway play by Terrence McNally
• The Ritz (film), the film version of the play

Rock clubs

• Ritz (rock club), a rock club in New York City in the 1980s
• Ritz (Austin, Texas), a 1970s Austin, Texas rock club, in which Roky Erickson recorded a live album
• The Ritz (Manchester), a Manchester, England rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded

Other uses

• Ritz Camera Centers, in the United States
• Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster Inc.
• Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
• Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon
• Ritz Malheur, a major character in the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance game
• Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack
• Ritz Newspaper, sometimes Ritz Magazine, the defunct monthly UK fashion and gossip periodical published by David Bailey and David Litchfield