Ritz

Ritz or The Ritz may refer to:

Hotels

• Ritz Hotel, a hotel overlooking Green Park in London, England
• Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
• Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel brand
  • Ritz-Carlton a chain of hotels

Cinemas and theatres

See also: Ritz Theatre (disambiguation)

• 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 (1850–1915), hotelier
• Walter Ritz (1878–1909), theoretical physicist
• Rosalie Ritz (1923–2008), pioneering courtroom artist
• Gerry Ritz (1951–), Canadian federal politician
• David Ritz, author
• The Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s
• Ritz Malheur, a fictional character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Dathan Ritzenhein, (1982–), American distance runner and Olympian, often referred to as "Ritz"

In music

• Puttin' on the Ritz, a popular 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 by Arctic Monkeys

In television, theatre, and films

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

Rock clubs

• Ritz (rock club), a rock club in New York City in the 1980s
• 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

Other uses

• Maruti Ritz, Indian version of Suzuki Splash, a hatchback city car
• Ritz Camera Centers, in the United States
• Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster Inc.
• Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
• Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon
• Ritz Malheur, a major character in the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance game
• 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

Distinguish from

• Writs