Rita Dove (born 1952), U.S. African-American poet and author

Educating Rita, a stage comedy (1980) and film (1983)

Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909), Italian-American neurologist

Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), American actress

Rita Verdonk (born 1955), Dutch politician, former Minister of Integration and Immigration

Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), prolific American writer and social activist

Rita is a common given name, and may refer to:

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novel

Rita Moreno (born 1931), Puerto Rico-American Academy Award-winning actress

Rita R. Colwell (born 1934), U.S. environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator

Rita Coolidge (born 1945), American singer

Rita Clay Estrada, American author and first president of the Romance Writers of America

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, a fictional red fox from the Danish movie interprise Jungledyret Hugo

Rita Rudner (born 1956), American comedian and writer

Rita in Hinduism, "Universal law"

Rita of Cascia (St. Rita) (1381-1457), pre-eminent Augustinian saint

RIT Ambulance (RITA), a volunteer ambulance at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Rita Cosby (born 1964), former MSNBC news broadcaster

Rita Foster, a fictional character in the Canadian production Cypher (film)

Rita Kleinstein (born 1962), Israeli singer/actress known as "Rita"

Rita, Japanese singer, lyricist, voice actress

Rita Guerra (born 1967), Portuguese singer

RITA, Réseau intégré des transmissions automatiques, "Integrated Network of Automatic Transmissions", a protected system of military transmissions first used in the French Army

Rita Wilson (born 1956), American actress and producer

Rita Tushingham (born 1942), English actress

Rita Johnston (born 1935), Canadian politician

Rita Donagh (born 1939), British artist

Tropical Storm Rita (disambiguation)

Rita Deverell (born 1945), Canadian television broadcaster and social activist

Rita Kalmbach, former Canadian politician

Rita Buglass Gluck, U.S. song writer

1180 Rita, an asteroid

Rita (genus), a genus of catfishes.

"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

Rita, a 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 - Queen of Speed, a roller coaster at Alton Towers

Rita and Runt, a musical segment in the Animaniacs cartoon

Rita Marley (born 1946) Jamaican singer, widow of Bob Marley

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