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Rita (given name)

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Rita is a common female first name, often a name in its own right, but mostly a shortened version of Margarita. The following are notable people with the name Rita.

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In film, television and theater

  • Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), American actress
  • Rita Moreno (b. 1931), Puerto Rican-born American actress
  • Rita Raave (born 1951). Estonian actress
  • Rita Rudner (b. 1956), American comedian and writer
  • Rita Simons (b. 1977), English actress and singer
  • Rita Tushingham (b. 1942), English actress
  • Rita Wilson (b. 1956), American actress and producer

    • In journalism and literature

  • Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944), American writer and activist
  • Rita Cosby (b. 1964), American journalist
  • Rita Deverell (b. 1945), Canadian journalist
  • Rita Dove (b. 1952), American poet
  • Rita Clay Estrada (b. 1941), romance novelist

    • In music

  • Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984), stage name of Rita Thyagarajan, an Indian playback singer
  • Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962), stage name of Rita Yahan-Farouz Kleinstein, Persian-born Israeli singer and actress
  • Rita (Japanese singer), Japanese voice actress, singer, and lyricist
  • Rita Abatzi (1914–1969), Greek singer
  • Rita Coolidge (b. 1945), American singer
  • Rita Gorr (b. 1926), Belgian operatic mezzo-soprano
  • Rita Guerra (b. 1967), Portuguese singer
  • Rita Hosking (b. 1969), American singer-songwriter
  • Rita Hunter (1933-2001), British operatic dramatic soprano
  • Rita Kassabian, Armenian composer
  • Rita Lee (b. 1947), Brazilian musician
  • Rita MacNeil (b. 1944), Canadian country and folk singer
  • Rita Marley (b. 1946), Jamaican singer and widow of Bob Marley
  • Rita Ora (b. 1990), British singer-songwriter
  • Rita Pavone (b. 1945), Italian singer
  • Rita Reys (b. 1924), Dutch jazz singer
  • Rita Sakellariou (1934–1999), Greek singer
  • Rita Simons (b. 1977), English actress and singer
  • Rita Steblin (b. 1951), Canadian musicologist
  • Rita Streich (1920–1987), operatic soprano

    • In visual arts

  • Rita Angus (1908–1970), New Zealand painter
  • Rita Donagh (b. 1939), British artist

    • Fictional characters

  • Rita (Cypher), in the film Cypher
  • Rita, in the franchise Jungledyret Hugo
  • Rita Mordio, in Tales of Vesperia
  • Rita Bennett, in the TV series Dexter
  • Rita Hanson, in the film Groundhog Day (as well as the musical of the same name)
  • Rita Repulsa, a villain in the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  • Rita Skeeter, in the Harry Potter franchise
  • Rita Stapleton, in the TV series The Guiding Light
  • Rita Sullivan, in the TV series Coronation Street
  • Rita or Susan White, in Educating Rita
  • Rita, a Saluki dog in Disney film Oliver & Company
  • Rita, a female cat in the show Animaniacs
  • MOK, a dictatorial teacher based on the real teacher with the same name (see above), portrayed extensively in a highly successful student play from Hong Kong

    • In government and politics

  • Rita of Armenia (1278–1333), Empress of Byzantium
  • Rita Barberá (b. 1948), Spanish politician and mayor of Valencia
  • Rita Fan (b. 1945), Hong Kong politician
  • Rita Johnston (b. 1935), Canadian politician
  • Rita Lau (b. 1953), retired Hong Kong senior government official
  • Rita Potts Parks (born 1962), American politician
  • Rita Süssmuth (b. 1937), German politician
  • Rita Verdonk (b. 1955), Dutch politician

    • In sport

  • Rita Crockett (b. 1957), American volleyball player
  • Rita Drávucz (b. 1980), Hungarian water polo player
  • Rita Jeptoo (born 1981), Kenyan marathon runner
  • Rita Tamašauskaitė (b. 1941), Lithuanian rower
  • Adam Rita (born 1947), Canadian Football League executive and former coach
  • Jani Rita (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey player

    • In other fields

  • Rita of Cascia (1381–1457), Italian Augustinian saint
  • Rita Atria (1974–1992), Italian anti-Mafia witness
  • Rita R. Colwell (b. 1934), environmental microbiologist
  • Rita Jenrette (b. 1949), former wife of disgraced U.S. Representative John Jenrette, posed for Playboy magazine
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Italian-American neurologist
  • Rita de Acosta Lydig (1875–1929), American socialite

    • References

    Rita (given name) Wikipedia
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