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Rita Simons
Rita Joanne Simons (born 10 March 1977) is an English actress, singer, and model from London, who is known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" from 2007 to 2017, when her character was killed off. For her performance on the show Simons received many accolades, including the 2008 National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer.
Rita Riggs
Rita Riggs (September 2, 1930 – June 5, 2017) was an American costume designer for film and television. She is probably best known for being the costume designer for Norman Lear sitcoms.
Rita Fornia
Fornia was born in San Francisco, California as Regina Newman on 17 July 1878. Her parents were immigrants from Prussia and her father owned a successful business as a wholesale jeweller. At the age of 12, she attended Adelina Patti's 1890 concert in San Francisco which inspired her to become an opera singer. Her father eventually allowed her to move to New York City in 1898 to pursue her desire.
Rita Kovács
17times world cup championship
Rita Kovács (born March 29, 1970 in Nyíregyháza) is a former long-distance swimmer from Hungary. She represented her home country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in 800 metre freestyle. She also competed in open water swimming, winning several medals.
Rita Lawrence
Lawrence was born on 24 January 1911 at Beddington, Surrey. She was the first child of Albert Sam Cann who was an Englishman with African descent and his White British wife Emma Elizabeth, née Dowsett. Her father organised appearances at Wigmore Hall of performers including Dorothy Callender and Paul Robeson. Her home was in Britain, Austria and Germany where her father was arrested for fraud. It is said that Lawrence argued her own way into a judge's chambers at the age of fourteen to plead her father's case. His maternal grandmother had encouraged her daughter to marry Albert because she valued interracial marriages.
Lisa Simon
Lisa Simon (April 4, 1951 — April 4, 2015) was an American television producer and director.Simon was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award in the category Outstanding Children's Program, for her work on "", in 1984. The nomination was shared with Dulcy Singer, Arlene Sherman, and Tony Geiss.
Rita Crocker Clements
She was born in Newton, Kansas, on October 30, 1931, to rancher and political activist Mason Crocker and his wife Florabel. The family relocated to Brady, Texas, when she was 10 years old. She attended The Hockaday School in Texas, graduating in 1949. She then studied at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, before completing her undergraduate degree in 1953 at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated with honors in Spanish and also minored in history and government. Her 1952 marriage to Richard Bass produced four children. They divorced in 1974, and in 1975 she married Bill Clements.
Rita Avila
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Rita Eriksen
Rita Eriksen (born May 26, 1966 in Sola, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, as solo artist and in the 1990s, as part of the Norwegian singing duo Eriksen with her sibling guitarist and singer Frank Eriksen. Rita Eriksen was also briefly a member of vocal group Queen Bees.
Roxy Mitchell
On 18 August 2016, it was reported that Roxy would be leaving the series in 2017 along with Ronnie after executive producer Sean O'Connor chose to write them both out. A spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Rita Simons will be leaving "EastEnders". Having joined the show in 2007, Rita immediately won the hearts of the audience in the role of Roxy Mitchell and between her and Samantha Womack they created one of the most iconic duos "EastEnders" has ever seen. Alongside Samantha, Rita was recently offered to take part in the same big storyline that will see the Mitchell sisters depart Walford forever, but we will not be releasing any further details at this time. We wish Rita all the best for the future."
Rita Meyer (baseball)
Rita Ann Meyer [Moellering] (February 12, 1927 – June 16, 1992) was a shortstop and pitcher who played from through for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 145 lb., Meyer batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Florissant, Missouri.
Rita Verreos
Rita Rosina Verreos (born July 19, 1968) is a TV Host/ News Anchor, actress, beauty pageant coach, model, and former beauty pageant & reality television contestant.
Rita Kernn-Larsen
Rita Kernn-Larsen (1 January 1904 – 10 April 1998) was a Danish surrealist painter. She was born to a wealthy family in Hillerød, and attended the private Marie Mørks School there. She began to paint at a young age, and after spending time abroad in Oslo, Norway, she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to fine-tune her craft, but found the teachings there to be too traditional. Instead, she moved to Paris and joined Fernand Léger's academy, studying under him until 1933, when she returned to Denmark and opened up her own studio.
Rita Clifton
Rita Ann Clifton CBE (born 30 January 1958) is a British advertising professional and a former UK Chairman of Interbrand who currently works as a speaker, facilitator, writer, and non-executive director of a portfolio of companies.
Rita Johnson
Johnson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of a single mother, Lillian Johnson.
Rita (Israeli singer)
Rita Jehan-Forouz was born in Tehran, Iran in 1962 to an Iranian Jewish family. Her family immigrated to Israel in 1970 and lived in a suburb outside of Tel Aviv. She began singing professionally as a band member while in the Israeli Army during the 1980s, and rose to stardom quickly. Rita was married to singer, composer, and keyboardist Rami Kleinstein, with whom she has two daughters, Meshi and Noam. The couple performed together in 2001. In 2007, they announced they were separating.
Rita Bradshaw
Rita Bradshaw (born 1950 in Northampton, England) is a British romance novelist, she wrote historical romances as her real name and under the pseudonym Helen Brooks contemporary romances at Mills & Boon since 1992.
Rita De Guzman
Rita Daniela (born as Rita De Guzman Iringan, September 15, 1995) is a Filipina singer, actress and television host. She played Maureen Zalameda on "Impostora" 2017, and one of the main villains of the series.
Rita Sullivan
In 1992, she becomes Rita Sullivan when she marries Ted Sullivan (William Russell). The marriage only lasts three months, as he dies from a brain tumour. When Rita collapses in her flat in July 1998 from carbon monoxide poisoning, she is saved by her friend Alec. Realising how close he came to losing his best friend, Alec proposes to Rita. She initially turns him down, but later changes her mind and accepts. Their relationship ends several months later when they realise they cannot trust one another. Rita takes in Stacey, a local woman who tried to con Fred Elliott (John Savident) by pretending to be a Thai bride named Orchid. She had previously conned a man named Stuart (Duncan Preston), who locked her in his flat for days at a time and inflicted physical violence on her. Stuart traces her to Rita's home and breaks in, destroying her property. He threatens Rita, and though he is arrested, Rita decides to move house. Rita later moves in with her old friend Doreen Fenwick (Barbara Young), and although they initially get along well, Doreen outstays her welcome. Rita is proposed to by her friend and co-worker Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden), she turns him down.
Rita Hinden
Rita Hinden (16 January 1909 – 18 November 1971) was a South African social democratic activist.
Rita Simons
In August 2004, she married hairdresser Theo Silveston, whom she met through a friend when she was 19. They have twin daughters.
Rita McBride
Rita McBride was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1960. She received her BA from Bard College in New York in 1982 and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1987, where she studied with Michael Asher and John Baldessari. After receiving her MFA, McBride began to exhibit her work widely initially with art galleries in Porto and Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of more than seventy one-person exhibitions and twenty monographs.
Maria Rita
Maria Rita (; born 9 September 1977, São Paulo) is a Brazilian singer. Born Maria Rita Camargo Mariano, she is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano and music producer João Marcelo Bôscoli. Her namesake is family friend and famed Brazilian rock legend Rita Lee. She studied at New York University, and worked as a journalist at a magazine for adolescents.
Rita Dominic
Rita Uchenna Nkem Dominic Nwaturuocha (born July 12, 1975) is a Nigerian actress. In 2012 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Rita Fornia
Rita Fornia (17 July 1878 – 27 October 1922) was an American opera singer. She began her career in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century singing coloratura soprano roles. Early on in her career her voice darkened and dropped slightly causing her to focus more within the mezzo-soprano repertoire while still singing some soprano roles. She joined the Metropolitan Opera company in 1907 where she performed regularly in mostly supporting roles until her retirement in 1922. She is best remembered today for portraying the role of the Abbess in the original production of Puccini's "Suor Angelica" in 1918.
Rita Gallagher
Rita Gallagher was born September 1, 1921. She was crowned Miss Michigan at age nineteen, and married a U.S. Air Force pilot, her second husband, in 1949. She is the mother of the writer Rita Clay Estrada from her first marriage, and two sons, Jeffrey and Gregory, from her second. Gallagher and her daughter, along with romance novelists Parris Afton Bonds, Sondra Stanford, and Peggy Cleaves created the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), holding its first-ever conference in 1981 at The Woodlands, Texas.
Paula Simons
Paula Simons (born September 7, 1964) is a currently-serving Canadian Senator. She previously worked as a journalist and was a columnist for the "Edmonton Journal" in Edmonton, Alberta. She sits as an independent senator representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada, and is part of the Independent Senators Group caucus.
Rita Simons
In December 2010, Simons launched the RNID Christmas Concert where she announced that her five-year-old daughter Maiya is deaf.
Rita Angus Residency
The Rita Angus Cottage at 194A Sydney Street West in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon was built in 1877. Rita Angus lived there from 1955 until her death in 1970.
Rita Ann Higgins
Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955) is an Irish poet and playwright.
Rita Abrams
Rita Abrams (born August 30, 1943) is an American songwriter, performer and writer. Her song "Mill Valley", recorded with children at the school where she was teaching, was released under the name Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Third Grade Class in 1970, becoming a "Billboard" Hot 100 hit and being nominated for a Grammy. In 1980, she won an Emmy for the music for "I Want It All Now", an NBC documentary about life in Marin County, California.
Rita Wilson
Wilson's long-standing interest in singing led her to record a debut solo album, "AM/FM", which she released on May 8, 2012, on the Decca Records label. The album featured classics from the 1960s/1970s, including a cover of "Wichita Lineman" that she performed with the song's writer-composer, Jimmy Webb.
Rita Kuti-Kis
Rita Kuti-Kis (born 13 February 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. In 1992 she was beaten by future international no 1 Martina Hingis in the Petits As competition, a juniors tournament at Tarbes, France which has been renowned for the discovery of young tennis talent. Kuti-Kis's most successful year was 2000 when she scored her one and only WTA Tour singles title in São Paulo. In the same year she reached the third round of the French Open (losing to Monica Seles) and defeated then up-and-coming Jelena Dokić in the first round of the Australian Open. Dokić's dismissive statements made thereafter created something of a media storm. Kuti-Kis retired from professional tennis in 2006.
Dorota Simonides
Dorota Elżbieta Simonides (born 1928 Janów) - Polish folklorist and politician. Professor emerita of the Faculty of Philology, Opole University. She lost her library (5 000 volumes) during the 1997 Central European flood.
Rita la Cantaora
Rita Giménez García, most commonly known as Rita la Cantaora (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz; 1859 - Zorita del Maestrazgo, Castellón; 1937), was one of the most famous Spanish singers of flamenco in her time due to her performances in "cafés cantantes", places where flamenco artists used to play music live.
Kim Fields
Kim Victoria Fields (born May 12, 1969) is an American actress and television director. Fields is known for her roles as Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey on the NBC sitcom "The Facts of Life" (1979–88), and as Regine Hunter on the Fox sitcom "Living Single" (1993–98). Fields is the daughter of actress/director Chip Fields and older sister of actress Alexis Fields.
Rita Simons
On 11 May 2007, it was announced that she would be joining the cast of "EastEnders" as Roxy Mitchell, alongside Samantha Womack who played Roxy's sister Ronnie Mitchell. Of her role, Simons said: "I've always watched "EastEnders" and it's been my dream to become part of the Mitchell family." Simons temporarily departed from "EastEnders" in late 2015 (the character departed from screens from 1 January to 4 May 2016), allowing the actress to take part in a Snow White pantomime at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, over the 2015/16 Christmas and New Year period. In August 2016, it was announced that Simons had quit "EastEnders" along with Samantha Womack and that they would be both departing in an "explosive" storyline in 2017. Her on-screen character Roxy Mitchell drowned in a swimming pool in an episode broadcast on New Year's Day 2017, along with her sister Ronnie.
Rita Crocker Clements
Rita Crocker Clements (October 30, 1931 – January 6, 2018) was an American Republican Party organizer, an activist in historic preservation, and a First Lady of the U.S. state of Texas.
Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia (Born Margherita Lotti 1381 – 22 May 1457) was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Rita was a child bride, married before the age of 12. The marriage lasted for eighteen years, during which she is remembered for her Christian values as a model wife and mother who made efforts to convert her husband from his abusive behavior. Upon the murder of her husband by another feuding family, she sought to dissuade her sons from revenge.
Rita Simons
On 12 November 2018, Simons was confirmed to be participating in that year’s series of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". She was the fourth to be eliminated on 4 December 2018.
Rita Reys
Reys was born in Rotterdam in 1924 into an artistic family. Her father was a violin player and conductor, her mother a dancer. At home, she heard hardly any jazz as her parents preferred light classical music, so Reys grew up hearing Tchaikovsky and Chopin. As a teenager, she nonetheless entered and won many local talent competitions.
Rita Karin
Born to Moses Karpinowicz and Rachel Levitan in Wilno, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), Rita and her husband, Norbert Horowitz, a graduate of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, create a Yiddish theater that performed for Holocaust survivors throughout Europe. The couple emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she acted in the Yiddish theater in New York City. She and other actors read the works of Sholom Aleichem at the home of Bel Kaufman, Aleichem's granddaughter, each year on the anniversary of the writer's death.
Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American comedian. Beginning her career as a Broadway dancer, Rita Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to stand-up comedy where she has flourished for over three decades. Her performance on a variety of HBO specials and numerous appearances on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", helped establish Rudner as one of the premier female comics to emerge from the comedy boom of the 1980s.
Rita Potts Parks
Parks was born on December 18, 1962 in Corinth, Mississippi. She was educated at the Alcorn Central High School. She graduated from the University of Mississippi.
Rita of Cascia
The ""Acta"" or life story of Rita was compiled by the Augustinian priest, Jacob Carelicci. Rita was beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1626. The pope's private secretary, Fausto Poli, had been born some fifteen kilometers (nine miles) from her birthplace and much of the impetus behind her cult is due to his enthusiasm. She was canonized on May 24, 1900 by Pope Leo XIII. Her feast day is May 22. On the 100th anniversary of her canonization in 2000, Pope John Paul II noted her remarkable qualities as a Christian woman: "Rita interpreted well the 'feminine genius' by living it intensely in both physical and spiritual motherhood."
Rita Ramnani
Rita Ramnani (born 21 December 1981) is a British actress and dancer known for her roles in "The Hunt for Gollum", "Jack Says" and "Umbrage". She holds a post-graduate degree in Classical Acting from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and a BA Drama, Theatre and Performance from University of Roehampton.
Rita Johnston
Rita Margaret Johnston (born April 22, 1935, née Leichert) is a Canadian politician in British Columbia. Johnston became the first female premier in Canadian history when she succeeded Bill Vander Zalm in 1991 to become the 29th Premier of British Columbia.
Rita Pfister
Rita Pfister (born 20 March 1952) is a Swiss athlete. She competed in the women's discus throw at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita Colwell was born on November 23, 1934, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Her parents, Louis and Louise Rossi, had eight children, Rita being the seventh child born into the Rossi household. Neither her mother nor her father were from scientific backgrounds. In 1956, Rita obtained a B.S. in bacteriology from Purdue University. She also received her M.S in genetics from Purdue. Colwell's Ph.D. is from the University of Washington in the field of aquatic microbiology under the direction of microbiologist John Liston. She participated in a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research Council (Canada) in Ottawa.
Rita Williams
Rita Williams (born January 14, 1976) is a former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the 13th pick in the 1998 WNBA Draft, selected by the Washington Mystics. She attended Mitchell College She played college basketball for the University of Connecticut.
Rita Gorgonowa
Rita Gorgonowa (real name Emilia Margerita Gorgon, née Ilic) was a governess, and main character of one of the most infamous crime stories of the Second Polish Republic. Born on 7 March 1901 in Knin, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary, she was found guilty of murder of Elzbieta Zaremba, daughter of Henryk Zaremba, an architect from Lwow. The murder, which took place on 30 December 1931, and the subsequent trial, were regarded as the biggest crime story of Poland at that time. Gorgonowa, who had a son and two daughters, died in unknown circumstances: her post-1939 fate has not been established.
Rita Walter
Rita Walter (née McLaughlin; March 8, 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carol Deming on the popular soap opera "As the World Turns", which she played from May 1970 to December 1981.
Rita Gam
Rita Gam (born Rita Eleanore MacKay, April 2, 1927March 22, 2016) was an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Rita Childers
Margaret "Rita" Childers (née Dudley; 19 July 1915 – 9 May 2010) was a press attaché who was the wife of the 4th President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. While a press attaché, she worked in the British Embassy in Dublin.
Rita Smith
Lillian Rita Smith (née Hampton, 9 May 1912 – 7 June 1993) was a notable New Zealand communist and political activist.
Rita Redshoes
Rita Pereira (born 10 July 1981), known by her stage name Rita Redshoes, is a solo musical artist from Portugal. In 1996 she sang with her first band, Atomic Bees, releasing an album in 2000 entitled "love.noises.and.kisses". In 2003, she was invited to sing with David Fonseca, and shared with him the song “Hold Still” from "Our Hearts Will Beat As One", his second solo album. In 2008 she released her debut solo album "Golden Era". In 2010 the band Snow Patrol invited her to perform the single "Set the fire to the third bar" in Rock in Rio Lisbon.In the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 they were 8th (out of 19) in the New Sounds of Europe International Competition and were one of the nominees for Best Portuguese Act. In the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 they were awarded the Best Portuguese Act and were nominees for Best European Act.
Rita Sullivan
In May 2011, a "Daily Mirror" reporter announced that Rita and Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire) would become love rivals, following Dennis Tanner's (Philip Lowrie) return. Lowrie hinted at a possible relationship between Dennis and Rita, saying "I asked Barbara Knox, who plays Rita, how many husbands has she had? She said three, so there might be a fourth, you never know!" Rita and Dennis begin a relationship and series producer Phil Collinson stated "Rita genuinely loves Dennis very much. Their storyline harks back to 1964, when he looked after her and took her in. Now he's grown to love her because she's been able to look after him. I like that we can tell a love story of people in their 70s, and it's a relationship that we're really committed to. I'd love for Rita to have a wedding, so watch this space! And if we did have one, she'd be Mrs Tanner - how great is that?" Collinson later revealed Rita and Dennis would get married and their wedding would coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Regina Wasilewska-Kita
Regina Wasilewska-Kita (born February 27, 1951 in Trakucicha) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6890 votes in 41 Szczecin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Rita Lafontaine
Rita Lafontaine (8 June 1939 – 4 April 2016) was a Canadian theatre, film, and television actor. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She has been described as the muse of playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard. Her career spanned over fifty years and left an "indelible mark on Québec theatre, film and television". She is a four-time recipient of the Gémeaux Award; three times for Best Lead Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2011.
Rita Ridley
Rita Ridley (née Lincoln; 4 November 1946 – 12 February 2013) was an English middle- and long-distance runner.
Murder of Rita Ellis
Rita Ellis was a 19 year-old WRAF who was serving at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, when she was murdered on 11 November 1967. Ellis' murder has remained unsolved after 50 years despite periodic cold case inquiries and the availability of the offenders DNA sample which has been tested against 200 men.
Ruth Simpson (activist)
Ruth Simpson (March 15, 1926 – May 8, 2008) was the founder of the United States' first lesbian community center, an author, and former president of Daughters of Bilitis, New York.
Rita Simons
In July 2018, Simons revealed that she was suffering from ADHD, OCD, anxiety and insomnia.
Rita Borsellino
Rita Borsellino (2 June 1945 – 15 August 2018) was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party.
Rita Rato
Rita Rato Araújo Fonseca (born 5 January 1983, in Estremoz) is a Portuguese politician, who has been elected to the Assembly of the Republic since 2009. She has a bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon and is a member of the Portuguese Communist Party.
Mira Ann Smith
Mira Ann Smith (a.k.a. Myra Smith) (born 1926—died August 29, 1989) was an American songwriter, music industry pioneer, record label owner, studio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. In 1955, she founded Royal Audio Music, Inc. (a.k.a. Ram Records) and became one of the first women to own her own record company.  Her success led some in the music business to dub her “the female Sam Phillips." Smith is most well known for the songs she wrote with singer/songwriter, Margaret Lewis (Warwick), many of which charted on the "Billboard" Top 10. Smith and Lewis found their greatest songwriting success with singer, Jeannie C. Riley, and wrote many of her songs including, “The Girl Most Likely”, “Oh Singer”, “The Rib” and “There Never Was a Time.” In addition, Smith and Lewis wrote hit songs for artists such as David Houston ("Mountain of Love"), Margaret Whiting ("I Almost Called Your Name"), and Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson ("Soulshake"). Four artists charted on Billboard with the Smith and Lewis song “Reconsider Me”:  Johnny Adams (1969), Ray Pillow (1969), John Wesly Ryles (1971) and Narvel Felts (1975). Smith received six outstanding achievement awards from the Broadcast Music Industry (BMI). In 1988, she was inducted into the Southern Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1995 Smith was the first woman inducted into the Women in Music Hall of Fame.
Rita Cadillac (Brazilian entertainer)
Rita de Cássia Coutinho, known as Rita Cadillac, (born 13 June 1954) is a Brazilian dancer and singer. She took her stage name from Rita Cadillac, an acclaimed French dancer of the 1950s and 1960s. She is a former "chacrete", a special name to identify the dancers who appeared in the TV shows hosted by Chacrinha.
Jeptha Root Simms
Jeptha Root Simms (December 31, 1807 – May 31, 1883) was an American historian best known for chronicling the settlement of upstate New York.
Jeptha Root Simms was born at Canterbury, Connecticut on December 31, 1807, son of Joseph Simms and the former Phoebe Fitch. His family moved to Plainfield, New York in 1824. He married April 1, 1833, to Catherine Lawyer of Schoharie, New York. He died May 31, 1883 in Fort Plain, New York, age 75.
Rita Lopes de Almeida
Rita Lopes de Almeida was born on 5 March 1848 as the fourth of five children to Manuel Lopes and Josefa de Jesus Almeida. Her baptism was celebrated on the following 13 March. She would recite rosaries each night with her parents and siblings over the course of her childhood.
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson was born as Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Dorothea Genkos, was Greek, born and raised in Sotirë near Dropull i Sipërm in Albania, close to the border of Greece. Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff was a Pomak (Bulgarian Muslim) born in Breshtene (Oraio), Greece, close to the border of Bulgaria. Wilson's father moved from Bulgaria to the United States in 1949. He converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity upon his marriage, and changed his name to Allan Wilson in 1960, choosing his name after a local street. Rita was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith. Her father in addition to Bulgarian could speak "Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, a little bit of Italian, (and) a little bit of French," according to Rita's husband Tom Hanks, who said he modeled his portrayal of the character Viktor Navorski in the film "The Terminal" on his father-in-law.
Rita Moreno
Moreno (birth name: Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano ) was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María (née Marcano), a seamstress, and Francisco José "Paco" Alverío, a farmer. She was nicknamed "Rosita". Moreno, whose mother was 17 at the time of her birth, was raised in nearby Juncos. Rita's mother moved to New York City in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, Rita's younger brother, Francisco. Rita adopted the surname of her first stepfather, Edward Moreno, Rosa Maria's second husband. She spent her teenage years living in the villages of Valley Stream, New York on Long Island.
Rita Mills
Rita Mills was a singer from the Torres Strait Islands. She was part of the Mills Sisters with her sisters Cessa and Ina. She was born in 1934 on Naghir Island in Torres Strait. She lived on Thursday Island and during World War II was temporarily evacuated to the mainland. After she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2000 she moved to Cairns, retiring in 2001 and she died in 2004.
Rita Karin
Rita Karin (born Rita Karpinowicz; October 24, 1919 – September 10, 1993) was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series "Chicken Soup". She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of "Sophie's Choice". Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Rita Ora
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to prominence in February 2012 when she featured on DJ Fresh's single "Hot Right Now", which reached number one in the UK. Her debut studio album, "Ora", released in August 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles "R.I.P." and "How We Do (Party)". Ora was the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three consecutive singles reaching the top position.
Rita Inos
Rita Hocog Inos, EdD, (May 12, 1954 - August 10, 2009) was a Northern Mariana Island educator, activist and politician. Inos was the former Education Commissioner of the Northern Marianas school system and served on the Northern Marianas College Board of Regents. Inos was a two-time candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, becoming the first woman to seek election to that particular office.
Monica Sims
Monica Louie Sims (27 October 1925 – 20 November 2018) was a British BBC Radio producer who became Head of Children's Programmes, BBC Television then Controller of BBC Radio 4. She has also been a Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification, and Director of the Children's Film Foundation.
Rita Sanchez
Rita Sanchez (born May 20, 1937 in San Bernardino, California) is an American academic in the field of Chicana/o studies.
Rita Sullivan
Rita Tanner (also Littlewood, Bates, Fairclough and Sullivan) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street". Portrayed by veteran actress Barbara Knox, the character first appeared on-screen as Rita Littlewood for one episode on the 2 December 1964. The character returned full-time to the series on the 31 January 1972, making her one of "Coronation Street"s longest serving residents. Rita is one of the show’s most iconic characters and has been involved in some of the biggest storylines over the past 47 years.
Robert Rita
Robert Rita (born October 2, 1969) is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 28th District since 2002. Rita is also the Calumet Township Democratic committeeman and a trustee on the township board. His state representative district includes parts of Chicago's 9th and 34th wards, as well as several suburbs. Rita lists economic redevelopment, equitable school funding and increased health care availability as his top priorities in the state legislature. Rita is an Operating Engineer and a member of Local #150.
Netty Simons
Netty Simons (née Rothenberg) (b. 26 October 1913, d. 1 April 1994) was an American pianist, music editor, music educator and composer.
Rita Inos
Inos was born Rita Hocog on May 12, 1954, in Songsong, Rota, the Northern Mariana Islands. She was raised in Songsong as well.
Pat Simmons (baseball)
Patrick Clement Simmons ["birth name: Patrick Clement Simoni"] (November 29, 1908 – July 3, 1968) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the and seasons. Listed at , 172 lb., Simmons batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Watervliet, New York.
In a two-season career, Simmons posted a 0–2 record with 18 strikeouts and a 3.67 ERA in 33 appearances, including three starts, 75 hits allowed, two saves, and 76.0 innings of work.
Simmons died at the age of 59 in Albany, New York.
Rita Sullivan
Rita takes a job singing in a nightclub, and goes on to open "The Kabin", a corner shop. She becomes Rita Fairclough when she and Len marry in April 1977. In March 1982, they take in foster daughter Sharon Gaskell (Tracie Bennett), who leaves at the end of the year. Len is killed in a car accident in December 1983 and Rita is devastated to learn he had been having an affair. In January 1986, Rita takes in another foster daughter, Jenny Bradley (Sally Ann Matthews), and meets her estranged father Alan (Mark Eden). She begins a relationship with him, unaware he is also seeing Gloria Todd (Sue Jenkins), a barmaid at The Rovers. When Rita discovers his infidelity, she insists he choose and although Alan chooses Gloria, Gloria doesn't feel the same and ends their affair. Alan is also a conman and re-mortgages Rita's house to start a security business. He hires Dawn Prescott (Louise Harrison) as a receptionist and tries to rape her. Rita learns about the attack and Alan's fraudulent activities and reports him to the building society. In March 1989, in retaliation, he tries to suffocate her but fails and is found not guilty of attempted murder. He starts stalking Rita, who has a breakdown and escapes to Blackpool, but in December 1989 Alan tracks her down and tries to make her return to Weatherfield, but he is run down by a tram and killed in the attempt.
Rita Lopes de Almeida
Blessed Rita Lopes de Almeida (5 March 1848 – 6 January 1913) - in religion Rita Amada de Jesus - was a Portuguese professed religious and the founder of the "Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph" religious congregation. She spread the faith in the spirit of evangelization across Portugal despite a period of anti-religious sentiment and even received some intimidating threats during the course of her apostolate due to this; her order was dedicated to tending to girls and it ferried them off to their parents when anti-religious sentiment intensified.
Rita MacNeil
Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she had hits on the country and adult contemporary charts throughout her career. In the United Kingdom, MacNeil's song "Working Man" was a No. 11 hit in 1990.
Rita Johnson
Rita Ann Johnson (August 13, 1913 – October 31, 1965) was an American actress.
Rita Keane
Rita Keane (born 31 December 1922, Caherlistrane, near Tuam, County Galway, Ireland - died 28 June 2009, Galway City) was an Irish traditional singer and accordionist. She was a member of a well known Irish musical family, and had a lifelong musical partnership with her older sister, Sarah. She was a paternal aunt of singers Dolores, Seán and Matt Keane.
Dot Simons
Dorothy Edith Simons (née Nash, 16 February 1912 – 13 September 1996) was a notable New Zealand sportswoman, sports journalist and writer. She was born in Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand in 1912.
Rita Reys
Rita Reys (born Maria Everdina Reijs; 21 December 1924 – 28 July 2013) was a jazz singer from the Netherlands. At the 1960 French jazz festival of Juan-les-Pins, she received the title, "Europe's first lady of jazz".
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on "Billboard" magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her most famous recordings include "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", "We're All Alone", and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy": "All Time High".
Sita Narasimhan
Born in Madras on 15 June 1929, Sita was considered to be "one of the most brilliant persons in the Vangal family". She learnt German, took a First in economics at Cambridge University, then became a member of the English faculty at that university, and also made an in depth study of Hindu religious texts. In 1983, she wrote a biographical essay on another iconic woman, "Joan Robinson: In the Radical Vein. A Laywoman's Homage", in the "Cambridge Journal of Economics". Her published books include "Saivism Under The Imperial Cholas as revealed through their Monuments". She had close connections with Mahatma Gandhi with whom she walked.
Rita Simons
In December 2011, Simons hosted the annual Action on Hearing Loss concert along with the Mayor of Camden.
Rita Simons
She appeared on a "Big Star's Little Star" episode, broadcast on 1 April 2015, and won £13,000 for charity.
Elizabeth Sims
Sims moves the action from Los Angeles to Washington's Olympic Peninsula in "On Location", published by Minotaur in August 2010. Rita's sister Gina, working as a film location scout in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, goes missing, and Rita has no choice but to follow. Foul weather meets foul play as Rita and her stalwart friends risk their lives for the sake of truth—and love.
Santa Rita de Sampa
Santa Rita de Sampa is an album released by Brazilian singer Rita Lee, on September 4, 1997 by Universal Music. This album marked the return of Rita Lee, after a while recovering from a domestic accident.
Rita Scott
Rita Scott is a former Jamaican cricketer who represented the West Indies women's cricket team between 1979 and 1997. She played as a wicket-keeper.
Rita Livesi
Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979).
Simone Silva
Simone Silva (15 August 1928 – 30 November 1957) was an Egyptian-born French film actress who appeared in a handful of British B-movies during the 1950s. Silva, who was once quoted as saying she would "do anything" to get in the newspapers, was known however less for her acting than for her voluptuous figure and shameless publicity-seeking activities. She briefly made global headlines following a notorious incident at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival where she posed topless with Robert Mitchum for photographers, causing a sensation when the photographs were flashed around the world.
Yeardley Smith
Martha Maria Yeardley Smith ( ; born July 3, 1964) is an American actress, voice actress, writer and artist, best known for her long-running role as Lisa Simpson on the animated television series "The Simpsons".
Rachel Simons
Rachel (Ray) Simons (1914 – 12 September 2004) was a South African communist and trade unionist who helped draft the Women's Charter.
Rita Barcelo y Pages
Ines Joaquina Vicenta Barcelo 'y Pages was born on April 20, 1843 in Sarria, Barcelona, Spain. She was the second of the five children of Salvador Barcelo and Maria Pages. She joined the contemplative community of the "Beaterio de Mantelatas de San Agustin" in Barcelona and was given the religious name Sor Rita.