Famous People with Name Rita

Rita MacNeil            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita MacNeil: is a Canadian country and folk 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 has had hits on the country charts throughout her career.

Rita Coolidge            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita Coolidge: is a Grammy Award-winning American singer. She is of Cherokee Native American and Scottish descent.Rita Coolidge's early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, and Leon Russell.

Rita Fornia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita Fornia: 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 repertoir

Rita Quintero            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita Quintero: an American musician and singer.She began playing the piano at the age of four, and shortly afterwards began singing.After graduating with honors from the University of Miami School of Music in 1985, she started working in the local club scene in Miami. J

Rita Louise Buck-Crockett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita Louise Buck-Crockett: is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won the silver medal with the USA National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California under the guidance of coach Arie Selinger. She was a student at the University

Jani Rita            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Jani Rita: is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion.On September 25, 2005 he won the World Driver's Championship title at the age of 24 years and 58 days, thus breaking Emerson Fittipaldi's record of being the youngest F1 Champion. After retaining the title the following year, Fernando also became the youngest double Champion. In 2007, he became the second F1 driver, after Michael Schumacher, to score at least 100 points for three consecutive seasons. Nicknamed El Nano, Alonso acts as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF[1] and is one of the directors of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association.

Ang Rita            Origin/Culture/Country: Hindu

Ang Rita: is a famous mountain climber, who has successfully climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen,[1] and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard".[2] When he made his tenth climb of Everest in 1996 he set a world record for the number

Jose Manuel Da Silva Gonçalves Rita            Origin/Culture/Country: Portuguese

Jose Manuel Da Silva Gonçalves Rita: was a former Portuguese football goalkeeper.

Heikki Ritavuori            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Heikki Ritavuori: was a Finnish Bachelor of Law, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland, Minister of Internal Affairs, and for a short time also Deputy Minister of Justice. He was the closest work colleague of Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg and was Minister of Internal Affairs in J.H. Vennola's first and second governments from 1919 to 1922 for a total of 526 days. Heikki Ritavuori is a unique figure in Finland's political history because he is not remembered for his life's work, but instead for its end. Minister Ritavuori was shot dead at the door to his home in Helsinki in February 1922.