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Famous People with Name Rita

Rita as First Name

Rita Levi-Montalcini     Rita Levi-Montalcini       Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Rita Levi-Montalcini: Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Nerve growth factor (NGF).

Rita Abatzi     Rita Abatzi       Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Rita Abatzi: She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now Izmir, Turkey. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s. During that decade, the only female singer of rebetiko who rivalled her in popularity, and in the number of her recordings, was Roza Eskenazi.[1]

Rita Angus     Rita Angus       Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Rita Angus: was a New Zealand painter. Along with Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston she is credited with introducing modern styles to New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and water colour, and is well known for her portraits and landscapes.

Rita Levi Montalcini     Rita Levi Montalcini       Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Rita Levi Montalcini: is an Italian neurologist .Born in Turin to a Sephardic Jewish family, together with her twin sister Paola she was the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and gifted mathematician, and Adele Montalcini, a talented painter described by Levi-Montalcini as "an exquisite human being." She decided to go to medical school after seeing a close family friend die of cancer. Levi-Montalcini overcame the objections of her father - who believed that "a professional career would interfere with the duties of a wife and mother" - and enrolled in the Turin medical school in 1930, studying with Giuseppe Levi and graduating in 1936. She went to work as Levi's assistant, but her academic career was cut short by Benito Mussolini's 1938 Manifesto della Razza and the subsequent introduction of laws barring Jews from academic and professional careers.

Rita Hayworth     Rita Hayworth       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rita Hayworth: was an American actress who rose to stardom in the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time.

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Rita as Last Name

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

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

Heikki Ritavuori     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.

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