Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Facilities and structures

Hotels

The Ritz Hotel, London The Ritz London is a Grade II listed 5-star hotel in Piccadilly, London, England. A symbol of high society and luxury, the hotel is one of the world's most prestigious and best known. The Ritz has become so associated with luxury and elegance ...

, a hotel in London, England *

Hôtel Ritz Paris The Ritz Paris is a hotel in central Paris, overlooking the Place Vendôme in the city's 1st arrondissement. A member of the Leading Hotels of the World marketing group, the Ritz Paris is ranked among the most luxurious hotels in the world. ...

, a hotel in Paris, France *

Hotel Ritz (Madrid) The Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid is a historic five star Belle Époque hotel in Madrid, Spain at No. 5 in Retiro district, next to the Prado Museum. Opened in 1910, it is owned and managed by the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The hotel's ...

, a hotel in Madrid, Spain *

Hotel Ritz (Lisbon) The Hotel Ritz (Lisbon), now a Four Seasons hotel, is located in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It was built in the 1950s on the wishes of the leader of the Portuguese '' Estado Novo'' dictatorship, António de Oliveira Salazar, who consider ...

, a hotel in Lisbon, Portugal *

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC is an American multinational company that operates the luxury hotel chain known as The Ritz-Carlton. The company has 108 luxury hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories with 29,158 rooms, in add ...

, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain **

Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City The Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City, located at 199 S. Iowa Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, began as a hotel on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, built at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and renowned for its luxurious decor and famous guests. I ...

, a former hotel in New Jersey, United States ** The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, a hotel in Singapore **

Ritz-Carlton Montreal The Ritz-Carlton Montreal is a luxury hotel located at 1228 Sherbrooke Street West, on the corner of Drummond Street, in Montreal, Quebec. Opened in 1912, it was the first Ritz-Carlton hotel in North America. Its name was originally licensed by C ...

, a hotel in Montreal, Canada **

Ritz-Carlton Tokyo is a mixed-use skyscraper in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Completed in 2007, it is the tallest of the six buildings within the Tokyo Midtown complex, at , and was the tallest office building in Tokyo until 2014. Construction Located at the center ...

, 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 ''Island of Bryan'' is an HGTV Canada reality television series of renovation, home life, and business activities, premiering in Spring 2019. The show is similar to '' House of Bryan'' and '' Bryan Inc.'', two previous shows starring builder ...

, a former beach resort in South Andros, Andros, Bahamas

Other structures

* Ritz (Austin, Texas), a historic theater *

Ritz Cinema (disambiguation) Ritz Cinema may refer to: *Ritz Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England * Ritz Cinema, Harringay, London, England *Ritz Cinema, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England *Ritz Cinema, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England *Ritz Cinema, Randwick, Sydney, Austr ...

Ritz Theatre (disambiguation) Ritz Theatre or Ritz Theater is the name of several facilities: ;In England * Ritz Theatre (Lincoln, England) ;In Australia * Ritz Cinema, Sydney, a heritage-listed theatre in Sydney, New South Wales ;In the United States: *Ritz Theatre (Brunswic ...

* 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) The Ritz was a New York City rock club in the 1980s and early 1990s. History The Ritz was founded in 1980 by Jerry Brandt in the historic Webster Hall ballroom and concert space on 11th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Villag ...

, 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 Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method na ...

(1878–1909), theoretical physicist * Rosalie Ritz (1923–2008), pioneering courtroom artist *

David Ritz David Ritz (born December 2, 1943 in New York City) is an American author. He has written novels, biographies, magazine articles, and over a hundred liner notes for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Nat King Cole. He has coauthore ...

(born c. 1942), author * Gerry Ritz (born 1951), Canadian federal politician *

Ritz Brothers The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austria ...

, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s *

Dathan Ritzenhein Dathan James Ritzenhein (born December 30, 1982) is a retired American long-distance runner, and current head coach of On Athletics Club. He held the American record in the 5,000 metres (12:56.27) from 2009-2010, when it was broken by Bernard ...

(born 1982), American distance runner and Olympian, often referred to as "Ritz" *

Rittz Jonathan Matthew McCollum (born August 16, 1980), better known by his stage name Rittz, is an American rapper. His debut album '' The Life and Times of Jonny Valiant'' was released on April 30, 2013, rising to number 8 on ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hi ...

(Jonathan McCollum; born 1980), American rapper * DiDa Ritz, American drag queen

Fictional characters

Fritzi Ritz ''Fritzi Ritz'' is an American comic strip created in 1922 by Larry Whittington. In 1925, the strip was taken over by Ernie Bushmiller and, in 1938, the daily strip evolved into the popular '' Nancy''. The Sunday edition of the strip, begun by B ...

, a major character in the long-running comic strip

Nancy (comic strip) ''Nancy'' is an American comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller and distributed by United Feature Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Syndication. It was spun off from ''Fritzi Ritz'', a strip Bushmiller inherited from creator La ...

. *

Ritz Malheur is a 2003 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. A spin-off of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, the game shares several traits with 1997's '' Final Fantasy Tactics'', alth ...

, 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) Ritz is a Brazil, Brazilian brand of cigarettes, owned by multinational British American Tobacco. Ritz cigarettes are manufactured by Tabaqueira (subsidiary of Altria) and Souza Cruz). History The brand was created in 1970 and is sold in Portugal ...

, a Portuguese brand *

Ritz (crater) Ritz is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. This portion of the lunar surface is sometimes brought into view of the Earth under favorable conditions of libration In lunar astro ...

, 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 Suzuki Splash is a city car that was introduced to the market in 2008. It was jointly developed by Suzuki Motor Corporation and Opel GmbH, which market their version under the name of Agila. Its debut as a concept car took place at the 200 ...

, the Indian version of the Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car *

Rydberg–Ritz combination principle The Rydberg–Ritz combination principle is an empirical rule proposed by Walther Ritz in 1908 to describe the relationship of the spectral lines for all atoms, as a generalization of an earlier rule by Johannes Rydberg for the hydrogen atom and ...

* Ritz method (mathematics)