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Rita K. Chow

Rita K. Chow, also known as Rita Kathleen Chow, is a Chinese American nurse and retired U.S. Public Health Service officer known for aging-inmate hospice care.

Rita Koban

Rita Kőbán is a Hungarian sprint kayaker, born 1965 in Budapest, who won six Olympic medals, including K-1 500 m gold at Atlanta 1996, and nine world titles.

Rita Kühne (born 1947, Dresden) is a German former sprinter for East Germany's SC Dynamo Berlin who won 1972 Olympic gold in the 4x400 m relay at München in world record 3:22.95, plus the 1971 European title.

Oct 22, 2026

Rita Letendre

Rita Letendre (1928–2021) was a Canadian abstract painter, printmaker, and muralist of Abenaki heritage who began with the Automatistes in Montreal and became known for hard-edged, luminous arrow and ray paintings.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor, the first known neurotrophic factor, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, novelist, and screenwriter, author of Rubyfruit Jungle (1973), a foundational lesbian coming-of-age novel, the Mrs. Murphy mysteries co-written with cat Sneaky Pie Brown, and the Sister Jane foxhunting series.

Rita Marley

Rita Marley (Alfarita Constantia Anderson, born 1946 or 1947, Santiago de Cuba) is a Jamaican reggae singer, widow of Bob Marley, Soulettes and I-Threes founding member, solo artist behind "One Draw", and philanthropist honored with Jamaica's Order of Distinction and Ghanaian queenship.

Rita Mayfield

Rita Mayfield is an American Democratic politician who represents Illinois's 60th House district, chairs its Appropriations Public Safety Committee, and previously served on the Waukegan Board of Education.

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno (born Rosita Dolores Alverio, December 11, 1931, Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer, the first Latina to win an Oscar (West Side Story, 1962) and the only Latina EGOT winner, later a PEGOT with a 2019 Peabody.

Rita of Cascia

Rita of Cascia (Santa Rita da Cascia), also known as Saint Rita, was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun canonized in 1900, patron of impossible causes.

Rita Ora

Rita Ora (Rita Sahatçiu Ora), British-Kosovar pop singer born 1990 in Pristina; Roc Nation signee, UK number ones "Hot Right Now" and "R.I.P.", albums Ora, Phoenix, You & I, most UK Top 10 singles by a British female artist.

Rita Ora discography

Rita Ora discography: three studio albums (Ora 2012, Phoenix 2018, You & I 2023), the Bang EP with Imanbek, four UK number-one singles, and a record 13 UK Top 10 singles for a British female solo artist.

Rita Panahi

Rita Panahi, Iranian-Australian conservative commentator born 1976 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; former banker turned Herald Sun columnist and Sky News Australia host of The Rita Panahi Show and Lefties Losing It.

Sep 21, 2026

Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell, born Rita Rossi in 1934, is an American environmental microbiologist known for cholera research and as the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation.

Rita Repulsa

Rita Repulsa is an evil alien sorceress and main villain of the Power Rangers franchise, debuting in 1993 after 10,000 years imprisoned in a space dumpster on the Moon.

Rita Rudner

Rita Rudner, American stand-up comedian, actress, and author from Miami; Broadway dancer turned clean one-liner comic; longest-running solo female comedy headliner in Las Vegas; married to writer-producer Martin Bergman.

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, born 1962 in Waldshut, is a German Social Democratic Party politician who serves as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment.

Rita Schwerner Bender

Rita Schwerner Bender, American civil rights activist and family law attorney, widow of CORE worker Michael Schwerner, killed by Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; later an ACLU and public defender lawyer in Seattle and prosecution witness at the 2005 Killen trial.

Rita Simons

Rita Simons (born 1977), English actress; Roxy Mitchell in EastEnders 2007–2017 (NTA Most Popular Newcomer 2008), 2023 cameo return, Marie Fielding in Hollyoaks 2024, niece of Lord Sugar.

Rita Tamašunienė

Rita Tamašunienė, born 1973 in Vilnius district, is a Lithuanian politician of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania who serves as Minister of Justice, having earlier been Interior Minister.

Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham (born 1942, Liverpool) is an English actress, face of the British New Wave, whose film debut as Jo in A Taste of Honey (1961) won Cannes Best Actress, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe.

Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson (born Margarita Ibrahimoff, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and film producer from Los Angeles, wife of Tom Hanks. Known for producing My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mamma Mia!, her albums AM/FM through Sound of a Woman, and 2019 Greek citizenship.

Rita Zohar

Rita Zohar (ריטה זוהר), Israeli actress and Holocaust survivor born in Balta, Ukraine; known for Laura Adler's Last Love Affair, Waterworld, and Bessie in Eleanor the Great (2025).

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1987 British comedy directed by Alan Clarke from Andrea Dunbar's play, about two Bradford teenage babysitters in an affair with a married man, released 29 May 1987.

Ritabhari Chakraborty

Ritabhari Chakraborty (born 1992, Kolkata) is an Indian actor, writer, and producer in Bengali cinema and television, known for Ogo Bodhu Sundari, Chotushkone, Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti, Fatafati, and Bohurupi, plus Hindi work in Naked and Pari.

Ritabrata Banerjee

Ritabrata Banerjee is an Indian politician and Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, elected in 2026 as a Trinamool Congress candidate before the party split.

Ritacuba Blanco

Ritacuba Blanco (Rita Uwa Blanco), highest peak of Colombia's Sierra Nevada del Cocuy and the Cordillera Oriental at about 5,330-5,410 m; first climbed 1942 by Augusto Gansser; its monitored glacier has lost 67% of its area since 1955.

Oct 15, 2026

Ritanserin

Ritanserin (development code R-55667, trade name Tiserton) is a potent, long-acting serotonin 5-HT2 antagonist developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica, trialed for schizophrenia, depression, and sleep disorders but never marketed, now studied as a DGKα inhibitor.

Ritchey (Martian crater)

Ritchey, a 79 km complex impact crater on Mars at 28.5S, 309E, formed about 3.46 Ga in the Early Hesperian; it exposes deep crustal rocks, post-Noachian clays, and rim hydrothermal alteration.