Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Facilities and structures

Hotels

  • The Ritz Hotel, London, a hotel in London, England
  • Ritz Club casino
  • Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
  • Hotel Ritz (Madrid), a hotel in Madrid, Spain
  • Hotel Ritz (Lisbon), a hotel in Lisbon, Portugal
  • The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain
  • Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City, a former hotel in New Jersey, United States
  • 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
  • Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York City), a former hotel in New York City
  • Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh, a hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Ritz Beach Club, a former beach resort in South Andros, Andros, Bahamas

Other structures

  • Ritz (Austin, Texas), a historic theater
  • Ritz Cinema (disambiguation)
  • Ritz Theatre (disambiguation)
  • Ritz Tower, a residential building in New York City
  • The Ritz (Manchester), a Manchester, England Rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded
  • The Ritz (rock club), a New York City Rock club that existed in the 1980s and early 1990s

People

  • César Ritz (1850–1918), hotelier
  • Charles Ritz (1891–1976), son of César Ritz
  • Glenda Ritz (born 1954), Indiana politician
  • 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
  • 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 (Jonathan McCollum; born 1980), American rapper
  • DiDa Ritz, American drag queen

Fictional characters

  • Fritzi Ritz, a major character in the long-running comic strip Nancy (comic strip).
  • Ritz Malheur, a fictional character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Music

  • "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

Television, theatre, films

  • The Ritz (film), the 1976 film version of the play
  • The Ritz (play), a 1975 Broadway play by Terrence McNally
  • The Ritz (TV series), a 1987 BBC television series

Other uses

  • Ritz (cigarette), a Portuguese brand
  • Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the Moon
  • Ritz Camera & Image, in the United States
  • Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
  • Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack
  • Ritz Newspaper, sometimes Ritz Magazine, a defunct UK fashion and gossip periodical
  • Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster
  • Maruti Suzuki Ritz, the Indian version of the Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car
  • Rydberg–Ritz combination principle
  • Ritz method (mathematics)

See also

  • Puttin' On the Ritz (disambiguation)
  • Rytz, a Swiss surname
  • Writs