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'''Rita''' is a common [[given name]] (being a shortened form of [[Margarita]] or [[Margherita]]), and may refer to:
* [[Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)]] - coordinates the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) research programs
* [[List of asteroids/1001–2000#101|1180 Rita]], an asteroid
* [[Rita (genus)]], a genus of catfishes
* ''[[Educating Rita]]'', a stage comedy (1980) and film (1983)
* "[[Lovely Rita]]", a song by The Beatles from the album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''
* [[Rita (album)]], an album by Portuguese singer Rita Guerra
**[[Hurricane Rita]], a major Category 5 and eighteenth storm in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
**[[Tropical Storm Rita (disambiguation)]]
* RITA, ''Réseau intégré des transmissions automatiques'', "Integrated Network of Automatic Transmissions", a protected system of military transmissions first used in the [[French Army]]
* [[Rita - Queen of Speed]], a roller coaster at Alton Towers
* [[Rita and Runt]], a musical segment in the ''Animaniacs'' cartoon
* [[Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption]], a novel
* [[Rita in Hinduism]], "Universal law"
* [[RITA Resistance Inside the Armies]]; Resister Inside the Armies; Resist Inside the Armies. Term invented by US Army Private Richard Perrin in September 1967. Became widely used during the Vietnam/American war. Later applied generally to Resistance Movements in many other armies
* RITA Award, the most prominent award in the genre of romantic fiction, presented by the [[Romance Writers of America]] and named after the organization's first president, Rita Clay Estrada
==People==
* [[Rita (singer)]], Japanese singer, lyricist, voice actress
* [[Rita Buglass Gluck]], U.S. song writer
* [[Rita of Cascia]] (St. Rita) (1381-1457), pre-eminent Augustinian saint
* [[Rita Clay Estrada]], American author and first president of the Romance Writers of America
* [[Rita R. Colwell]] (born 1934), U.S. environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator
* [[Rita Coolidge]] (born 1945), American singer
* [[Rita Cosby]] (born 1964), MSNBC news broadcaster
* [[Rita Crockett]] (born 1957), American volleyball player
* [[Rita Deverell]] (born 1945), Canadian television broadcaster and social activist
* [[Rita Donagh]] (born 1939), British artist
* [[Rita Dove]] (born 1952), U.S. African-American poet and author
* [[Rita Drávucz]] (born 1980), Hungarian water polo player
* [[Rita Guerra]] (born 1967), Portuguese singer
* [[Rita Hayworth]] (1918–1987), American actress
* [[Rita Johnston]] (born 1935), Canadian politician
* [[Rita Kalmbach]], former Canadian politician
* [[Rita Kleinstein]] (born 1962), Israeli singer/actress known as "Rita"
* [[Rita Lee]] (born 1947), Brazilian rock singer and composer
* [[Rita Levi-Montalcini]] (born 1909), Italian-American neurologist
* [[Rita Mae Brown]] (born 1944), prolific American writer and social activist
* [[Rita Marley]] (born 1946) Jamaican singer, widow of Bob Marley
* [[Rita Moreno]] (born 1931), Puerto Rico-American Academy Award-winning actress
* [[Rita Rudner]] (born 1956), American comedian and writer
* [[Rita Tushingham]] (born 1942), English actress
* [[Rita Verdonk]] (born 1955), Dutch politician, former Minister of Integration and Immigration
* [[Rita Wilson]] (born 1956), American actress and producer
==Fictional characters==
* [[Rita (Cypher)|Rita Foster]], a fictional character in the Canadian production ''Cypher (film)''
* [[Rita Repulsa]], a villain from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
* [[Rita Skeeter]], a fictional character from the Harry Potter series
* [[Rita Stapleton]], a fictional character from the CBS soap opera'' The Guiding Light'' from 1975 - 81
* [[Rita Sullivan]], a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Rita, a fictional red fox from the Danish movie interprise [[Jungledyret Hugo]]
* [[Rita Malone]], a fictional character from the kids' movie [[Flushed Away]]
==Organizations==
* [[RIT Ambulance]] (RITA), a volunteer ambulance at the Rochester Institute of Technology
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