• Gilbert Rist
  Gilbert Rist
  Gilbert Rist was a professor at the institut universitaire d'études du développement in Geneva. He is best known for his ground-breaking study of the concept and practice of development.-Writings:English...
  
  , a professor in Geneva
• Jeremy Alexander Rist, American economist, playwright and lawyer
• Johann von Rist
  Johann von Rist
  Johann von Rist was a German poet and dramatist best known for the hymns he wrote.-Life:He was born at Ottensen in Holstein on 8 March 1607; the son of the Lutheran pastor of that place, Caspar Rist...
  
  , German poet
• Leonard Rist
  Leonard Rist
  Leonard Rist was a French economist and banker. He was imprisoned by the Nazi forces following the German occupation of France in the summer of 1940, and spent 18 months in a prison camp in Sudetenland. The bankers of the House of Morgan, where Rist was employed, managed to get him out.After the...
  
  , the first chief economist of the World Bank
• Pipilotti Rist
  Pipilotti Rist
  Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist , is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.-Life and career:...
  
  , video artist
• Robbie Rist
  Robbie Rist
  Robert Anthony Rist is an American actor and musician.-Acting and voiceover work:As a child, Rist played Cousin Oliver in the final six episodes of The Brady Bunch. With the regular children all getting older, his inclusion was intended to reintroduce cute younger children to the series...
  
  , American actor
• Pierre Rist, president from 1946-1950
• Chris Rist, English Banker

Other uses

• RIST is an acronym for the Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test.
• Rist Mountain is part of the Marcy Group
  Marcy Group
  The Marcy Group is a subset of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains, near Keene Valley, New York, USA. It consists of the High Peaks near Mount Marcy at the southern end of the Great Range, Allen Mountain, Cliff Mountain, Mount Colden, Gray Peak, Mount Haystack, Mount Redfield, and Mount...
  
   in the Adirondack Mountains
• Rist (tenure) is also an obsolete form of communal ownership of land practiced in Ethiopia.