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Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow is Rainbow's 1975 debut album, recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, with Ronnie James Dio and Elf members, produced by Martin Birch, and featuring "Man on the Silver Mountain".
Ritchie De Laet
Ritchie Ria Alfons De Laet (born 1988, Antwerp), Belgian defender; Manchester United, Leicester City (2015-16 Premier League), Aston Villa, and Royal Antwerp (2022-23 Belgian champion); 2 Belgium caps; retired 2024.
Ritchie Neville
Ritchie Neville is the stage name of Richard Neville Dobson (born 1979), an English singer, sommelier, and original member of the British boy band Five.
Ritchie Torres
Ritchie John Torres, Democratic U.S. Representative for New York's 15th District (Bronx) since 2021; former NYC Council member 2014-2020; first openly gay Black member of Congress; left the Progressive Caucus in 2024 over Israel.
Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens, born Richard Steven Valenzuela, was an American singer from Pacoima, California, and the first Mexican American rock and roll star, known for "La Bamba."
Ritchie Vink
Ritchie Vink is a Dutch engineer who created the Polars DataFrame library in Rust (first commit 23 June 2020) and co-founded Polars BV in Amsterdam with Chiel Peters in 2023, raising a $4M seed and a €18M Accel-led Series A.
Rite Aid
Rite Aid was an American drugstore chain founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1962 that grew to more than 2,000 stores before closing completely in October 2025.
Rite Here Rite Now
Rite Here Rite Now is Ghost's 2024 debut feature concert film, co-directed by Tobias Forge and Alex Ross Perry, filmed at two sold-out 2023 Kia Forum shows, mixing live footage with narrative from the band's Chapters webisodes; it grossed $4.7M worldwide.
Rite of passage
A rite of passage, or rites de passage, is a ritual marking a person's movement between social states, such as birth, coming of age, marriage, or death.
Riteish Deshmukh (ऋतेश विलासराव देशमुख)
Riteish Deshmukh (ऋतेश विलासराव देशमुख), also Ritesh Deshmukh, is an Indian actor, producer, director, and architect in Hindi and Marathi cinema. Debut Tujhe Meri Kasam (2003); comedy hits Masti, Housefull, Dhamaal; villain turn in Ek Villain (2014) and Raid 2 (2025); director of Ved (2022) and Raja Shivaji (2026), the highest-grossing Marathi film.
Rites and music system
The rites and music system (礼乐制度) was the Western Zhou order of ritual and ceremonial music that organized political rank, religion, and education, traditionally created by Zhou Gongdan.
Rites of Zhou
The Rites of Zhou (周礼) is a Confucian classic describing an idealized roster of state offices, later listed among the Thirteen Classics and used as a template for Chinese government institutions.
Ritesh Agarwal
Ritesh Agarwal is an Indian entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of OYO, the budget-hotel company he started in 2012 at age 18 with a single hotel in Gurgaon.
Ritesh Arora
Ritesh Arora is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded BrowserStack, the cloud-based software testing platform, in Mumbai in 2011 with Nakul Aggarwal and serves as its chief executive officer.
Ritesh Banglani
Ritesh Banglani is an Indian venture capital investor who co-founded Stellaris Venture Partners in Bengaluru in 2016 after five years as a Helion Venture Partners partner, investing in TaxiForSure and Mamaearth.
Ritesh Rana
Ritesh Rana (రితేష్ రానా) is an Indian Telugu film director and screenwriter, not the corporate director of the same name. Known for Mathu Vadalara (2019), Happy Birthday (2022), Mathu Vadalara 2 (2024), and Jetlee (2026), made with Mythri Movie Makers.
Ritesh Tandon
Ritesh Tandon is an Indian-American Republican politician, engineer, and CEO of Kricel Corporation who advanced from the June 2026 primary to challenge Ro Khanna for California's 17th congressional district.
Ritha
Ritha is the classical Arabic genre of elegy, one of the oldest forms of Arabic poetry, in which poets mourn the dead and enumerate their virtues.
Ritha' al-Andalus
Ritha' al-Andalus, also known as the Nuniyya of Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi, is a 13th-century Arabic elegy mourning the fall of Andalusian cities and appealing for North African aid.
Rithmomachia
Rithmomachia, also called the Philosophers' Game, is a two-player mathematical board game invented in the monastic schools of southern Germany in the early 11th century.
Rithvik Dhanjani
Rithvik Dhanjani (born 1988) is an Indian television actor and host, known as Arjun Kirloskar in Pavitra Rishta, winner of Nach Baliye 6 and I Can Do That, and host of Super Dancer and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
Rithvik Jothi Raj
Rithvik Jothi Raj, also known as Rithu Rocks Rithvik, is a 13-year-old Indian child actor and YouTuber from Coimbatore who plays Rajinikanth's grandson in Jailer (2023) and Jailer 2 (2026) and runs a small coding venture with friends.
Riti
Riti (Sanskrit rīti, रीति) is, in classical Sanskrit poetics, the characteristic arrangement of words in a poem, declared the soul of poetry by the 8th-century theorist Vāmana.
Riti poetry
Riti poetry (रीतिकालीन काव्य) is the courtly Hindi poetry of the Ritikal, roughly 1643 to 1843, composed in Brajbhasha by poets such as Keshavdas and Bihari.
Ritika Nayak
Ritika Nayak, Indian actress and model in Telugu cinema, born and raised in Delhi in an Odia family. Debut Ashoka Vanamlo Arjuna Kalyanam (2022); known for Hi Nanna, Mirai (2025), and Korean Kanakaraju (2026).
Ritika Singh (रितिका मोहन सिंह)
Ritika Singh (रितिका मोहन सिंह), Indian actress and former kickboxer/MMA fighter, born 1994 in Mumbai. Debuted in Irudhi Suttru/Saala Khadoos (2016), won a 63rd National Film Awards Special Mention and Filmfare debut awards; also starred in Guru, Shivalinga, Oh My Kadavule, and Vettaiyan.
Ritikal
Ritikal (रीतिकाल), also called Shringar-kaal, is the period of Hindi literature from 1643 to 1843, when poets wrote Brajbhasha verse under codified poetics called riti.
Ritlecitinib
Ritlecitinib (Litfulo), Pfizer's oral irreversible JAK3/TEC kinase inhibitor, approved 2023 for severe alopecia areata in adults and adolescents 12+, 50 mg daily; also studied in vitiligo and IBD.
Ritobegron
Ritobegron (KUC-7483), also known as its prodrug ritobegron ethyl, is a selective beta-3 adrenoceptor agonist developed by Kissei Pharmaceutical for overactive bladder; development was discontinued after a failed Phase III trial.
Ritodrine
Ritodrine is a beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist used as a tocolytic to suppress uterine contractions and delay preterm labor, withdrawn from the US market in 1995.