Rita
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Rita is a common given name, and could also mean:
- Rita (album), album by Portuguese singer Rita Guerra
- St. Rita
- Rita, name on the list of tropical cyclone names for storms in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Hurricane Rita, a major Category 5 and eighteenth storm in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
- Rita and Runt, a musical segment in the Animaniacs cartoon.
- 1180 Rita, an asteroid
- Rita in Hinduism, "Universal law."
- Rita - Queen of Speed, a roller coaster at Alton Towers.
[edit] Rita as a given name
- Rita Buglass Gluck, a song writer.
- Rita R. Colwell, an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator.
- Rita Coolidge, a singer.
- Rita Cosby - a former MSNBC news broadcaster
- Rita Deverell, a Canadian television broadcaster and social activist.
- Rita Dove, a poet and author.
- Rita Guerra, a Portuguese singer.
- Rita Hayworth, an actress.
- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novel.
- Rita Johnston, a Canadian politician
- Rita Kleinstein, an Israeli singer known simply as "Rita".
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian-American neurologist.
- Rita Mae Brown, a prolific American writer and social activist.
- Rita Marley, was married to Bob Marley.
- Rita Moreno, an actress.
- Rita Repulsa, a character from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
- Rita Rudner, an American comedian and writer.
- Rita Skeeter, a fictional character from the Harry Potter series.
- Rita Tushingham, an actress
- Rita Verdonk, Dutch Minister of Integration and Immigration.
- Rita Wilson, an actress.
[edit] See also
- "Lovely Rita," a song by The Beatles from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Educating Rita, stage comedy and film