National People's Congress Standing Committee member Rita Fan said on 7 October 2011 that she didn't know about Tang's now widely publicised infidelity when she offered her support and she refused to rule herself out of standing in the following year's Chief Executive election, though she did not in fact stand.

The Presidents of the PLC was Rita Fan, whom later lead the legislative council following the handover.

The left was represented by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong's ticket, consisting of Ma Lik and Choy So-yuk ; and the centrist ticket was represented by Rita Fan.

Rita Fan, the LegCo chairperson, seemed more concerned by Leung's attire for LegCo meetings than any of his political opinions.

Rita Fan further explained that was the reason he was not approved.

Rita Fan, President of the Legislative Council, is giving a speech.

Pan-democrats petitioned the Hong Kong Government to allow them to enter Hong Kong to attend Szeto's funeral on compassionate grounds under the One country, two systems principle, although Rita Fan said the request represented a huge dilemma for the government as it would set a precedent.

* Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, 1997-2008, member of the council for Hong Kong Island.

In 2004, Ho unsuccessfully challenged Rita Fan in the Legco presidential election.

* 1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian saint ( b. 1381 )

* May 14 – Rita Hayworth, American actress ( b. 1918 )

* May 22 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint ( b. 1381 )

* June 28-Pauline Rita, singer and actress ( b. c. 1842 )

# Rita ( b. 11 January 1278 / 10 January 1279 – July 1333 ), renamed Maria upon her wedding ; married in 1294 with Michael IX Palaeologus, co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire with his father Andronicus II Palaeologus.

His brothers and sisters were Rita ( b. Caminha, Caminha, 1873 ), Alberto ( Caminha, Caminha, 1874 – Caminha, Caminha, 1877 ), António ( Caminha, Caminha, 15 November 1876 – Lisbon, Hospital da Marinha, 27 June 1949 ), who was also a military and married at the Igreja Matriz de Caminha, Caminha, 7 May 1904 Júlia Cândida de Sant ' Ana Cerqueira ( Caminha, Caminha, 1 September 1881 – Lisbon, 6 June 1968 ) and had issue, Ana da Glória ( b. Caminha, Caminha, 1878 ), Alberto ( b. Pedrógão Grande, 1881, d. child ) and Aureliano ( b. Sertã, 1883, d. child ).

* Rita Mae Brown ( b. 1944 ), American writer and activist

* Rita R. Colwell ( b. 1934 ), environmental microbiologist

* Rita Coolidge ( b. 1945 ), American singer

* Rita Cosby ( b. 1964 ), American journalist

* Rita Crockett ( b. 1957 ), American volleyball player

* Rita Deverell ( b. 1945 ), Canadian journalist

* Rita Donagh ( b. 1939 ), British artist

* Rita Dove ( b. 1952 ), American poet

* Rita Drávucz ( b. 1980 ), Hungarian water polo player

* Rita Clay Estrada ( b. 1941 ), romance novelist

* Rita Gorr ( b. 1926 ), Belgian operatic mezzo-soprano

* Rita Guerra ( b. 1967 ), Portuguese singer

* Rita Hosking ( b. 1969 ), American singer-songwriter

* Rita Jenrette ( b. 1949 ), former wife of disgraced U. S. Representative John Jenrette, posed for Playboy magazine

* Rita Johnston ( b. 1935 ), Canadian politician

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence civil servant James Murray Widdecombe and Rita N Plummer.

High Court Judge Rita Joseph-Olivetti found in favour of Digicel and quashed the original decision.

* Rita MacNeil, singer-songwriter.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

In 1986, there was a fire at the Rovers Return, which attracted an audience of just under 27 million, and between 1986 and 1989, the story of Rita Fairclough's psychological abuse at the hands of Alan Bradley ( Mark Eden ), and his subsequent death under the wheels of a Blackpool tram, was played out.

Rita Sullivan survived, despite being trapped under the rubble of her destroyed shop.

* Oleyar, Rita.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

* Woods, Marjorie Curry and Rita Copeland.

* Williams-Garcia, Rita.

He achieved his breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM loaned him out to Columbia to work with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl ( 1944 ), where he created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection.

" He also studied Spanish dancing under Angel Cansino, Rita Hayworth's uncle.

The film also starred Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess.

Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City.

In this Hollywood back-story movie, Bogart again is the broken-down man, this time the cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a flamenco dancer Ava Gardner, modeled on the real life of Rita Hayworth.

* 1999: The Legend of Ivanhoe, a Columbia TriStar International Television production dubbed into English starring John Haverson as Ivanhoe and Rita Shaver as Rowena.

Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and many more.

Frances Rita Ryan.

She is one of the few actors from the classic era of MGM musicals who is still active in film — a group that includes Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Dean Stockwell, Rita Moreno, Margaret O ' Brien, June Lockhart.

Serious writers who used lesbian characters and plots included Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), which presents a feminist heroine who chooses to be a lesbian.

* September 24, 2005, Rita ( Category 3 at landfall ) struck southwestern Louisiana, flooding many parishes and cities along the coast, including Cameron Parish, Lake Charles, and other towns.

* 1936 – Rita Cadillac, French dancer, singer, and actress ( d. 1995 )

In 1929, Steiner went to Hollywood to orchestrate the European film version of the Florenz Ziegfeld show Rio Rita for RKO.