Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Facilities and structures

Hotels

The Ritz Hotel, London The Ritz London is a Hotel rating, 5-star luxury hotel at 150 Piccadilly in London, England. A symbol of high society and luxury, the hotel is one of the world's most prestigious and best known. The Ritz has become so associated with luxury an ...

, a hotel in London, England ** Ritz Club casino *

Hôtel Ritz Paris The Ritz Paris is a hotel in central Paris, overlooking the Place Vendôme in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement. A member of The Leading Hotels of the World marketing group, the Ritz Paris is ranked among the most luxur ...

, a hotel in Paris, France * Hotel Ritz (Madrid), a hotel in Madrid, Spain * Hotel Ritz (Lisbon), a hotel in Lisbon, Portugal *

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC is an American multinational company that operates the luxury hotel chain known as The Ritz-Carlton. The company has 108 luxury hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories with 29,158 rooms, in addit ...

, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain ** Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City, a former hotel in New Jersey, United States ** The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, a hotel in Singapore **

Ritz-Carlton Montreal The Ritz-Carlton Montréal is a luxury hotel located at 1228 Sherbrooke Street West, on the corner of Drummond Street, in Montreal, Quebec. Opened in 1912, it was the second Ritz-Carlton hotel in North America after one in New York City. Its nam ...

, a hotel in Montreal, Canada ** Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, a hotel in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan **

Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York City) The Ritz-Carlton Hotel was a luxury hotel in New York City, owned by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. It was located at 46th Street and Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan until its demolition in 1951. History In 1898, César Ritz founded the ...

, a former hotel in New York City ** Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh, a hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia * Ritz Beach Club, a former beach resort in South Andros, Andros, Bahamas

Other structures

* Ritz (Austin, Texas), a historic theater * Ritz Cinema (disambiguation) * Ritz Theatre (disambiguation) *

Ritz Tower The Ritz Tower is a luxury residential building at 465 Park Avenue on the corner of 57th Street (Manhattan), East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was built from 1925 to 1926 as an apartment hotel and was ...

, a residential building in New York City *

The Ritz (Manchester) The O2 Ritz (originally known as The Ritz) is a live music venue on Whitworth Street West in Manchester, England. The venue is notable for its sprung dance floor and has a capacity of 1,500. History It was originally built as a dance hall in ...

, a Manchester, England Rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded *

The Ritz (rock club) The Ritz was a New York City rock club in the 1980s and early 1990s. History The Ritz was founded in 1980 by Jerry Brandt in the historic Webster Hall ballroom and concert space located at 119 East 11th Street between Third and Fourth av ...

, a New York City Rock club that existed in the 1980s and early 1990s

People

César Ritz César Ritz, born Cäsar Ritz (23 February 1850 – 26 October 1918), was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Hôtel Ritz in Paris and the The Ritz London Hotel, Ritz and Carlton Hotel, London, Ca ...

(1850–1918), hotelier *

Charles Ritz Charles C. Ritz (born Karl Cäsar Alexander Ritz; August 1, 1891 – July 11, 1976) was a French hotelier and fly fishing specialist. Like his father César Ritz, he was the owner and manager of Hôtel Ritz Paris. Biography Charles Ritz was the f ...

(1891–1976), son of César Ritz * Glenda Ritz (born 1954), Indiana politician *

Walther Ritz Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method n ...

(1878–1909), theoretical physicist *

Rosalie Ritz Rosalie Ritz (August 6, 1923 – April 18, 2008), born Rosalie Jane Mislove in Racine, Wisconsin, was an American journalist and courtroom artist who covered major United States trials in the 1960s through the 1990s. She worked with both CBS and A ...

(1923–2008), pioneering courtroom artist * David Ritz (born c. 1942), author *

Gerry Ritz Gerry Ritz (born August 19, 1951) is a former Canadian politician. He served as member of the House of Commons of Canada for Battlefords—Lloydminster from 1997 until his resignation in 2017. He served as Canada's agriculture minister from 2 ...

(born 1951), Canadian federal politician *

Ritz Brothers The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act consisting of brothers Al (1901–1965), Jimmy (1904–1985), and Harry Ritz (1907–1986) who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1970s. A fourth ...

, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s *

Dathan Ritzenhein Dathan James Ritzenhein (born December 30, 1982) is a retired American long-distance runner, and current head coach of the On Athletics Club (OAC). He held the American record in the 5,000 metres (12:56.27) from 2009 to 2010, until it was broke ...

(born 1982), American distance runner and Olympian, often referred to as "Ritz" * Rittz (Jonathan McCollum; born 1980), American rapper * DiDa Ritz, American drag queen

Fictional characters

* Fritzi Ritz, a major character in the long-running comic strip

Nancy (comic strip) ''Nancy'' is an American comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller and distributed by United Feature Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Syndication. Its origins lie in '' Fritzi Ritz'', a strip Bushmiller inherited from its creat ...

. * Ritz Malheur, a fictional character in ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance''

Music

* "Ritz", a rock song on '' The Psychomodo'' album by ''Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel'' * ''The Ritz'' (quartet), a barbershop quartet that won the International Championship in 1991

Television, theatre, films

* ''The Ritz'' (film), the 1976 film version of the play * ''The Ritz'' (play), a 1975 Broadway play by Terrence McNally * ''The Ritz'' (TV series), a 1987 BBC television series

Other uses

* Ritz (cigarette), a Portuguese brand * Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the Moon * Ritz Camera & Image, in the United States *

Ritz Crackers Ritz Crackers is a brand of snack cracker introduced by Nabisco in 1934. The original style crackers are disc-shaped, lightly salted, and approximately in diameter. Each cracker has seven perforations and a finely scalloped edge. Today, the Ri ...

, a brand of snack crackers * Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack * ''

Ritz Newspaper ''Ritz Newspaper'', colloquially ''Ritz Magazine'', sometimes simply ''Ritz'', was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion.Puttin' on the Ritz again, Andrew Lycett, Media & Marketing, ''The Times'', London, 31 May 1989 It was ...

'', sometimes ''Ritz Magazine'', a defunct UK fashion and gossip periodical * Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster * Maruti Suzuki Ritz, the Indian version of the Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car * Rydberg–Ritz combination principle * Ritz method (mathematics)