Rita may refer to:

People

Rita (given name) Rita is a female given name, often a name in its own right, but mostly a shortened version of Margarita. The feast day of Rita is generally celebrated on May 22 in honor of Saint Rita of Cascia. The following are notable people with the given nam ...

* Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984) * Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962) * Rita (Japanese singer) * Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita

Places

Djarrit Djarrit (also called Darrit and Rita; Marshallese: , ) is an island district in the Marshall Islands. It is located in the east of Majuro Atoll. Along with Uliga and Delap, it forms what is known as the " Delap-Uliga-Djarrit". Djarrit is large ...

, also known as Rita, a community in the Marshall Islands *

1180 Rita 1180 Rita, provisional designation , is a dark and spheroidal Hildian asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 97 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 April 1931, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the ...

, an asteroid * Rita, West Virginia * Santa Rita, California (disambiguation), several places

Film, television, and theater

* ''Rita'' (1959 film), a 1959 Australian television play * ''Rita'' (2009 Italian film), a 2009 Italian film * ''Rita'' (2009 Indian film), a 2009 Marathi film directed by Renuka Shahane * ''Rita'' (TV series), a Danish television show * RITA Award, an award for romantic fiction * '' Educating Rita'', a 1980 stage play by Willy Russel ** ''Educating Rita'' (film), a 1983 British film based on that play *Rita Santos, an adult mermaid on the TV series '' Mako Mermaids''

Music

* ''Rita'' (opera), an 1841 opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Albums

* ''Rita'' (Rita Yahan-Farouz album) , 4× platinum album by Israeli singer Rita 1986 *''Rita'', 2× platinum album by Rita MacNeil 1989 * ''Rita'' (Rita Guerra album), a 2× platinum Portuguese-language album by Rita Guerra 2005

Songs

*"Rita", a 1972 song by

Arthur Conley Arthur Lee Conley (January 4, 1946 – November 17, 2003), also known in later years as Lee Roberts, was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit " Sweet Soul Music". Early life Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., an ...

*"Rita", a 1976 song by

Marcel Khalife Marcel Khalifé ( ar, مرسيل خليفة; born 10 June 1950 in Amchit) is a Palestinian-Lebanese musical composer, singer, and oud player. Biography In 1983, Paredon Records (later acquired by Smithsonian Folkways) released ''Promise ...

*"Rita", a 1967 song by

The Men (pop rock band) The Men were an American pop rock band from Santa Monica, California. Despite its name, the group actually had two females as members. The group released a self-titled album on Polygram Records in 1992 (produced and engineered by David Leonard), ...

*"Rita", a song by Powderfinger from the 2003 album '' Vulture Street''

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Rita (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Alton Towers, England *

Rita Repulsa Rita Repulsa is a fictional character from the television series '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'', and the principal nemesis and archenemy of the main superhero protagonists in the show's first season. She is portrayed in the first season by ...

, a villain in the TV series ''

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon alon ...

Weather

Hurricane Rita Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten ...

* Tropical Storm Rita (disambiguation), the name of several storms

Other uses

* ''Rita'' (fish), a genus of catfishes * RiTa, an open-source programming library * Budweiser Rita, a group of flavored drinks made by Anheuser-Busch * Research and Innovative Technology Administration, research programs agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation * Resistance Inside the Army, a protest movement * RIT Ambulance, an emergency medical services organization * Rta (also transliterated as ''Rita''), a cosmic order in Hinduism