List of Famous people named Rita

Rita Laura Segato is an Argentine-Brazilian academic, who has been called "one of Latin America's most celebrated feminist anthropologists" and "one of the most lucid feminist thinkers of this era". She is specially known for her research oriented towards gender in indigenous villages and Latin American communities, violence against women and the relationships between gender, racism and colonialism. One of her specialist areas is the study of gender violence.

Rita Blanco is a Portuguese actress and voice actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1983. She starred in the film Get a Life, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Rita de Cássia de Sousa Guedes is a Brazilian actress.

Margarita Volkovinskaya, known professionally as Rita Volk, is an Uzbek-American actress. She is known for her role as Amy Raudenfeld in the MTV romantic comedy series Faking It.

Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai is a senior Hong Kong politician. She was the first President of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC).

Rita Gertrudis Bosaho Gori is an Equatorial Guinean-Spanish politician and activist member of Podemos, serving as Director-General for Equality of Treatment and Ethnic-racial Diversity in the Spanish Ministry of Equality since 2020. She was a member of the 11th and 12th terms of the Congress of Deputies.

Rita Chikwelu is a Nigerian professional football player who plays for Spanish club Madrid CFF. She previously played for Umeå IK and Kristianstads DFF. She is also a member of the Nigeria women's national football team.

Rita Savagnone is an Italian actress and voice actress.

Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns, but tended to feud with their leaders over the marginalising of lesbians within the feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.