Rita Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
Rita Loud is a character from the Nickelodeon show “The Loud House” She is the mom of Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lincoln, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa and Lily.
Rita Hayworth was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.
Rita Angus (1908-1970) was a New Zealand painter of portraits and landscapes.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini is an Italian Jewish neurologist. She received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is also an Italian Senator for Life.
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is an Academy Award-winning actress and the first and only Hispanic actress in history (as well as one of only nine people) to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award.
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and English descent who reached fame during the 1940s as one of the era's leading sex symbols. She was sometimes called "The Love Goddess" or "The Great American Love Goddess," and was celebrated as an expert dancer and great beauty.
Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell, filmed in 1983. The character Rita (real name Susan) calls herself that because Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown is her favourite book.
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Lovely Rita is the name of a song by The Beatles.
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Rita Tushingham was a cool actress of the 60's.
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This name is also the name of famous Spanish actress, Rita Hayworth.
Rita Hayworth's birth name was Margherita Cansino, a name she appeared under in a few of her earliest movies. Her parents, who had a flamenco act, were known as the Dancing Cansinos.