Rath may refer to:

Places

Ireland

Ráth Cairn Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze Age up to about the year 1000. They are found in Northern Europe, especially in Ireland. There are also many in South Wal ...

, village in County Meath *

Rath, County Clare Rath ( ga, An Ráth) is a civil parish in the barony of Inchiquin in County Clare, Ireland. Location Rath lies on the R460 regional road between Inagh to the south-west and Corofin to the north-east. It is about northwest of the county t ...

, a civil parish in County Clare * Rath, County Offaly, a village in south-west Offaly *

Rath, County Tipperary Rath (''An Ráth'' in Irish) is a townland in the historical Barony of Ormond Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. Its location straddles the R438 road south of Walshpark in the civil parish of Dorrha Dorrha () is a civil parish in the his ...

, a townland in County Tipperary * Two different townlands in

County Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = , subdivis ...

** Rath, Kilkenny West, a townland in

Kilkenny West (civil parish) Kilkenny West is a civil parish in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about west of Mullingar. Kilkenny West is one of 4 civil parishes in the barony of Kilkenny West in the Province of Leinster. The civil parish covers . Kilkenny West ...

** Rath, Street, a townland in

Street, County Westmeath (civil parish) Street () is a civil parish in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about north–north–west of Mullingar. Street is one of 6 civil parishes in the barony of Moygoish in the Province of Leinster. The civil parish covers . Street civil ...

Other countries

Mount Rath Mount Rath () is an Antarctic mountain six nautical miles (11 km) north-northeast of Mount Owen, in the Hutton Mountains of Palmer Land. Mount Rath was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and from U.S. Navy air ...

, Antarctica *

Düsseldorf-Rath Rath is a quarter in northern Düsseldorf, part of Borough 6. It is about 5 km northeast of the city center, near the airport. It has an area of , and 20,483 inhabitants (2020). History The Rath area was occupied since at least the Mesoli ...

, Germany *

Rath, India Rath is a small town with a municipal board in Hamirpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rath is a Tehsil of Hamirpur District. It is situated 506 km southeast of New Delhi. History The general belief is that Rath's n ...

, a town in Uttar Pradesh

People

Rath (surname) Rath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Rath (born 1959), American Electronic art, electronic, Kinetic art, kinetic, and Robotic art, robotic sculptor *Ari Rath (1925–2017), Austrian-Israeli journalist and write *Biswa K ...

Rath (Odia surname) Rath, Ratha or Rathasharma (, ) are Utkala Brahmins having Atreya or Krishnatreya gotra. They belong to Utkaliya Brahmin group of Northern India Panch Gauda Brahmins. Among other Brahmin community they hold high social status regarded as highly ...

a form of Rathi, a general surname also used by Oriya/Utkal Brahmins from the Indian state of Orissa * Rath Sarem, Cambodian politician

Businesses and organizations

Rath Packing Company The Rath Packing Company was a meatpacking company located in Waterloo, Iowa, between 1891 and 1985. Background George John Rath (variously referred to as George Rath and John George Rath) was born in 1821 in Breitenau, Württemberg province, Ge ...

, a defunct meat packer formerly located in Waterloo, Iowa *''

Thai Rath ''Thairath'' ( th, ไทยรัฐ, lit. ''Thai State'') is a daily newspaper in Thai published in Bangkok and distributed nationwide. The paper is a broadsheet published with two sections. The first section is devoted to news. Although the ...

'', national Thai-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok *

Musée Rath The Musée Rath is an art museum in Geneva, used exclusively for temporary exhibitions. Its building is the oldest purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, and the original home of Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. It is located on Place Neuv ...

, art museum in Geneva

Fictional uses

Rath block The Rath Cycle (also known as the Tempest block) is a cycle of three ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansions that continues the events of the Weatherlight Saga. Whereas there had previously been no official term for a trilogy (or tetralogy) of th ...

, a block of three ''Magic: The Gathering'' game expansions *Rath, an alien transformation in ''Ben 10: Alien Force'' *Rath, a character in the ''

Mummies Alive! ''Mummies Alive!'' is an animated series from DIC Productions L.P. and Northern Lights Entertainment. It originally aired for one season in 1997. The show was part of a general trend of "mummymania" in 1990s pop culture. Plot In ancient Egypt, ...

'' TV series *

Immanuel Rath ''The Blue Angel'' (german: Der blaue Engel) is a 1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert ...

, leading character in the 1930 film ''The Blue Angel'' and the 1959 remake *Rath, a creation of Lewis Carroll in ''

Jabberwocky "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel '' Through the Looking-Glass'', the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The ...

'' *Rath Illuser, character in the manga ''

Dragon Knights is a manga series drawn by Mineko Ohkami and published in the monthly Japanese magazine ''Wings''. The manga was licensed in the United States by Tokyopop. The Tokyopop translation is imported to Australia by Madman Entertainment Madma ...

Other uses

Rath tribe The Rath ( Rajasthani: रथ (Devanagari) (Perso-Arabic)) are a community, found in the state of Rajasthan in India. They also settled in Punjab and Sindh provinces Pakistan. There is another clan similar to it known as Rathi. Background ...

, a Rajput ethnic group from northern India *Ráth (anglicised rath), Irish for

ringfort Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze Age up to about the year 1000. They are found in Northern Europe, especially in Ireland. There are also many in South Wale ...

*Rath, a breed of

zebu The zebu (; ''Bos indicus'' or ''Bos taurus indicus''), sometimes known in the plural as indicine cattle or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in the Indian sub-continent. Zebu are characterised by a fatty ...

cattle