Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Facilities and structures

Hotels

The Ritz Hotel, London The Ritz London is a Grade II listed 5-star hotel in Piccadilly, 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 and elegance ...

, a hotel in London, England * Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France * Hotel Ritz (Madrid), a hotel in Madrid, Spain *

Hotel Ritz (Lisbon) The Hotel Ritz (Lisbon), now a Four Seasons hotel, is located in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It was built in the 1950s on the wishes of the leader of the Portuguese '' Estado Novo'' dictatorship, António de Oliveira Salazar, who consider ...

, 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, a hotel in Montreal, Canada **

Ritz-Carlton Tokyo is a mixed-use skyscraper in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Completed in 2007, it is the tallest of the six buildings within the Tokyo Midtown complex, at , and was the tallest office building in Tokyo until 2014. Construction Located at the center ...

, 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. History The Ritz-Carlton Investing Company was established by Albert ...

, 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 Cinema may refer to: *Ritz Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England * Ritz Cinema, Harringay, London, England *Ritz Cinema, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England *Ritz Cinema, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England *Ritz Cinema, Randwick, Sydney, Austr ...

Ritz Theatre (disambiguation) Ritz Theatre or Ritz Theater is the name of several facilities: ;In England * Ritz Theatre (Lincoln, England) ;In Australia * Ritz Cinema, Sydney, a heritage-listed theatre in Sydney, New South Wales ;In the United States: *Ritz Theatre (Brunswic ...

* Ritz Tower, a residential building in New York City * The Ritz (Manchester), a Manchester, England Rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded * The Ritz (rock club), a New York City Rock club that existed in the 1980s and early 1990s

People

* César Ritz (1850–1918), hotelier * Charles Ritz (1891–1976), son of César Ritz * Glenda Ritz (born 1954), Indiana politician * Walther Ritz (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 2007 ...

(born 1951), Canadian federal politician * Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s * Dathan Ritzenhein (born 1982), American distance runner and Olympian, often referred to as "Ritz" * Rittz (Jonathan McCollum; born 1980), American rapper *

DiDa Ritz The fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' began airing on January 30, 2012, with cast members announced November 13, 2011. The winner of season four headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime s ...

, American drag queen

Fictional characters

Fritzi Ritz ''Fritzi Ritz'' is an American comic strip created in 1922 by Larry Whittington. In 1925, the strip was taken over by Ernie Bushmiller and, in 1938, the daily strip evolved into the popular '' Nancy''. The Sunday edition of the strip, begun by Bu ...

, a major character in the long-running comic strip Nancy (comic strip). *

Ritz Malheur is a 2003 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. A spin-off of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, the game shares several traits with 1997's '' Final Fantasy Tactics'', alth ...

, a fictional character in ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance''

Music

* "Ritz", a rock song on ''

The Psychomodo ''The Psychomodo'' is the second studio album by Cockney Rebel, which was released by EMI in 1974. It was produced by Steve Harley and Alan Parsons. Background Cockney Rebel's debut album, ''The Human Menagerie'', was released in 1973 and failed ...

'' 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) Ritz is a Brazil, Brazilian brand of cigarettes, owned by multinational British American Tobacco. Ritz cigarettes are manufactured by Tabaqueira (subsidiary of Altria) and Souza Cruz). History The brand was created in 1970 and is sold in Portugal ...

, a Portuguese brand *

Ritz (crater) Ritz is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. This portion of the lunar surface is sometimes brought into view of the Earth under favorable conditions of libration In lunar astro ...

, a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon * Ritz Camera & Image, in the United States * Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers *

Ritz Metro Ritz Metro is a biscuit launched in 2007 by Kraft Foods, now Mondelez International Mondelez International, Inc. ( ), often styled Mondelēz, is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding and beverage and snack food company base ...

, 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 Suzuki Splash is a city car that was introduced to the market in 2008. It was jointly developed by Suzuki Motor Corporation and Opel GmbH, which market their version under the name of Agila. Its debut as a concept car took place at the 200 ...

, the Indian version of the Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car *

Rydberg–Ritz combination principle The Rydberg–Ritz combination principle is an empirical rule proposed by Walther Ritz in 1908 to describe the relationship of the spectral lines for all atoms, as a generalization of an earlier rule by Johannes Rydberg for the hydrogen atom and ...

* Ritz method (mathematics)