Ritz

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Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Hotels

• The Ritz Hotel, London, a hotel overlooking Green Park in London, England
• Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain
  • Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City, a former hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, a hotel in Singapore
  • Ritz-Carlton Montreal, a hotel in Montreal, Canada
  • Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, a hotel in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

Cinemas and theatres

• The Ritz, Randwick, New South Wales
• The Ritz, Harringay, London
• Ritz (Austin, Texas)
• Ritz Theatre (Haddon Township, New Jersey)
• Ritz Theatre (Jacksonville), Florida

People

• César Ritz (1850–1918), hotelier
• Charles Ritz (1891–1976), son of César Ritz
• Walther Ritz (1878–1909), theoretical physicist
• Rosalie Ritz (1923–2008), pioneering courtroom artist
• David Ritz (born c. 1942), author
• Gerry Ritz (born 1951), Canadian federal politician
• The Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s
• Dathan Ritzenhein (born 1982), American distance runner and Olympian, often referred to as "Ritz"
• "Rittz" (born 1980), stage name of Jonathan McCollum, an American rapper
• Glenda Ritz (born 1954), Indiana politician

In music

• "Puttin' On the Ritz", a popular 1929 song by Irving Berlin
• "Ritz", a rock song on The Psychomodo album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
• The Ritz (quartet), a barbershop quartet that won the International Championship in 1991
• "From the Ritz to the Rubble", a song on the Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys debut EP

Rock clubs

• The Ritz (rock club), a 1980s New York City rock club
• Ritz (Austin, Texas), a 1970s Austin, Texas rock club, in which Roky Erickson recorded a live album
• The Ritz (Manchester), a Manchester, England rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded

In television, theatre, films and games

• The Ritz (play), a 1975 Broadway play by Terrence McNally
• The Ritz (film), the 1976 film version of the play
• The Ritz (TV series), a 1987 BBC television series
• Ritz Malheur, a fictional character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Other uses

• Maruti Suzuki Ritz, Indian version of the Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car
• Ritz Camera Centers, in the United States
• Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
• Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon
• Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack
• Ritz Newspaper, sometimes Ritz Magazine, a defunct monthly UK fashion and gossip periodical published by David Bailey and David Litchfield
• Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster

See also

• Rytz, a Swiss surname

Distinguish from

• Writs