Ritter (surname)

People

• Alexander Ritter
  Alexander Ritter
  Alexander Sascha Ritter was a German composer and violinist.He was born in Narva, Estonia. He studied in Frankfurt am Main under Joachim Raff. In 1854 he married Wagner's niece Franziska...
  
   (1833–1896), German composer, violinist, and conductor
• August Ritter (civil engineer)
  August Ritter (civil engineer)
  August Ritter was a German civil engineer.-Biography:He was educated at the Polytechnic Institute at Hanover, and at Göttingen...
  
   (1826-1908), German civil engineer
• August Gottfried Ritter
  August Gottfried Ritter
  August Gottfried Ritter was a German romantic composer and organist.-Biography:Co-creator, together with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, of the first example of Romantic Organ Sonata ; he moved in 1847 from being organist in Merseburg cathedral to become organist in Magdeburg cathedral...
  
   (1811–1885), German romantic composer and organist
• Bill Ritter (journalist) (born 1950), American news anchor in New York City
• Bill Ritter (politician)
  Bill Ritter (politician)
  August William "Bill" Ritter is an American politician of the Democratic Party, and was the 41st Governor of the state of Colorado, from 2007 to 2011. Before his election in 2006, he served as the district attorney for Denver...
  
   (born 1956), American politician, Governor of Colorado
• Bruce Ritter
  Bruce Ritter
  Rev. Bruce Ritter was a Roman Catholic priest and one-time Franciscan friar who founded the charity Covenant House in 1972 for homeless teenagers, from which he was forced to resign in 1990 after accusations that he had engaged in financial improprieties and had engaged in sexual relations with...
  
   (1927–1999), American Roman Catholic priest, founder of Covenant House
• Burwell C. Ritter
  Burwell C. Ritter
  Burwell Clark Ritter was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, uncle of Walter Evans.Born near Russellville, Kentucky, Ritter received a limited schooling. He served as member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1842 and 1850.Ritter was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress...
  
   (1810–1880), American politician, Congressman from Kentucky 1865–1867
• Carl Ritter
  Carl Ritter
  Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.-Biography:Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a...
  
   (1779–1859), German geographer
• Christian Ritter (born 1984), German football player
• Don Ritter
  Don Ritter
  Don Ritter is a Canadian installation artist and writer living in Berlin, Germany. He has been active in the field of new media art since the mid-1980s. His work consists primarily of large interactive video and sound installations that audiences control through their body position, body movement...
  
   (born 1959), Canadian installation artist and writer
• Donald L. Ritter
  Donald L. Ritter
  Donald Lawrence "Don" Ritter was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1979 to 1993.-Early life and education:...
  
   (born 1940), American politician, Congressman from Pennsylvania 1980–1993
• Erika Ritter
  Erika Ritter
  Erika Ritter is a Canadian playwright and humorist.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she studied drama at McGill University and the University of Toronto. In addition to her published work, she has written and hosted programming for CBC Radio...
  
   (born 1948), Canadian playwright and humorist
• Floyd Ritter
  Floyd Ritter
  Floyd Ritter was a catcher in Major League Baseball. He played one game for the Toledo Maumees in 1890, and had no hits in three at-bats.-Sources:...
  
   (1870–1943), Major League Baseball catcher 1890
• Frédéric Louis Ritter
  Frédéric Louis Ritter
  Frédéric Louis Ritter was a German-American composer and author.-Biography:He was born in Strasbourg, and studied under Moritz, Hauser, and Schletterer...
  
   (1834-1891), German-American composer and author
• Friedrich Ritter
  Friedrich Ritter
  Friedrich Ritter was a botanist who collected and described many species of cacti. Ritterocereus is named in his honour.- References :...
  
   (1898–1989), German botanist, expert on cacti
• Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a conservative German historian.-Before the Third Reich:...
  
   (1888–1967), German conservative historian
• Halsted L. Ritter
  Halsted L. Ritter
  Halsted Lockwood Ritter was an American lawyer and judge. He served in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida but was impeached and removed from office, only the fourth official to be removed.-Early life and education:Ritter was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1868...
  
   (1868–1957), American jurist impeached and removed from office in 1936
• Heinrich Ritter
  Heinrich Ritter
  Heinrich Ritter was a German philosopher.He was born at Zerbst, and studied philosophy and theology at Göttingen and Berlin until 1815. In 1824 he became extraordinary professor of philosophy at Berlin, later transferring to Kiel, where he occupied the chair of philosophy from 1833 to 1837...
  
   (1791–1869), German philosopher
• Henry Ritter
  Henry Ritter
  -Biography:He was born at Montreal. He studied under Gröger in Hamburg and under Karl Ferdinand Sohn at Düsseldorf. Among his chararteristic and finely colored episodes from the life of sailors and fishermen, showing the influence of his friend and teacher Rudolf Jordan , the most prominent are:*...
  
   (1816-1853), Canadian genre painter
• Huntley Ritter
  Huntley Ritter
  Huntley Ritter is an American actor/pro-hunter/producer from Atlanta, Georgia.Huntley Ritter is an avid outdoorsman and hunter who has worked as a professional actor, an industry he claims that has allowed him the flexibility to pursue his passion in the outdoors...
  
   (born 1977), American actor
• Jason Ritter
  Jason Ritter
  Jason Morgan Ritter is an American actor, son of the late actor John Ritter and actress Nancy Morgan. Ritter is probably best known for his role as Kevin Girardi in the television series Joan of Arcadia and as Sean Walker in the NBC series The Event.-Early life:Ritter was born in Los Angeles,...
  
   (born 1980), American actor, son of John Ritter
• Jeannie Ritter
  Jeannie Ritter
  Jeannie Ritter was the First Lady of Colorado and the wife of Governor Bill Ritter.Jeannie Ritter's focus as First Lady of Colorado was creating mental health awareness and increasing access to mental health services for all Colorodans who need it.Bill and Jeannie Ritter married in 1984. They have...
  
   (born 1958), First Lady of Colorado, US; wife of Governor Bill Ritter
• Joachim Ritter (1903–1974), German philosopher
• Johann Christian Ritter
  Johann Christian Ritter
  Johann Christian Ritter was a German in the service of the Dutch East India Company who came to South Africa in 1784. He was the first to print in the Cape, the earliest record is an almanac titled "Almanach voor't jaar 1796"....
  
   (born 1755), first printer in South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
  
• Johann Wilhelm Ritter
  Johann Wilhelm Ritter
  Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German chemist, physicist and philosopher. He was born in Samitz near Haynau in Silesia , and died in Munich.-Life and work:...
  
   (1776–1810), German chemist and physicist
• John Ritter
  John Ritter
  Jonathan Southworth "John" Ritter was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian perhaps best known for having played Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three's Company and 8 Simple Rules, respectively...
  
   (1948–2003), American actor, son of Tex Ritter, father of Jason Ritter
• John Ritter (congressman)
  John Ritter (congressman)
  John Ritter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Ritter was born in Exeter, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling and apprenticed as a printer. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1836.Ritter was elected as a Democrat...
  
   (1779–1851), American politician, Congressman from Pennsylvania 1843–1847
• John H. Ritter
  John H. Ritter
  Baseball novelist John H. Ritter grew up playing "one-on-one" hardball with his brothers in the rural hills of eastern San Diego County along the Mexican border. His father was a sports writer in Ashtabula, Ohio, who moved the family out west to become Sports Editor for The San Diego Union...
  
   (born 1951), American young-adult baseball novelist
• John Steele Ritter
  John Steele Ritter
  John Steele Ritter is an American classical keyboardist and teacher.A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he went on to graduate studies at the University of Southern California...
  
  , American pianist, long-term collaborator of French flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."-Early years:...
  
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• Joseph Ritter (1892–1967), American Cardinal, Archbishop of Saint Louis 1946–1967
• Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine.- Early life :Josh...
  
   (born 1976), American singer-songwriter
• Krysten Ritter
  Krysten Ritter
  Krysten Alyce Ritter is an American actress and former model. Ritter is well known for her critically acclaimed turn as Jane Margolis on AMC's Breaking Bad where she first appeared as the property manager and neighbor of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman...
  
  , American actress
• Laszlo Ritter (1937–2003), Hungarian landscape artist
• Lawrence Ritter
  Lawrence Ritter
  Lawrence S. Ritter was an American writer whose specialties were economics and baseball.Ritter was a professor of economics and finance, and chairman of the Department of Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. He also edited the academic periodical...
  
   (1922–2004), American baseball writer
• Lorenz Ritter
  Lorenz Ritter
  Lorenz Ritter was a German painter and etcher.-Biography:He was born at Nuremberg, and a pupil of Heideloff. He painted chiefly in watercolors and etched numerous architectural views of Nuremberg and some subjects from North Italy. He died in Nuremberg....
  
   (1832–1921), German painter
• Lou Ritter
  Lou Ritter
  Louis Hampton "Lou" Ritter was an American politician and lobbyist. He served as mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1965 until 1967. A Democrat, he assumed office when W. Haydon Burns, mayor since 1949, resigned to become Governor of Florida...
  
  , American politician, mayor of Jacksonville, Florida 1965–1967
• Louise Ritter
  Louise Ritter
  Louise Dorothy Ritter is a former track and field athlete from the United States, who won the gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea. This graduate from Red Oak High School now has a street named after her located in her former home town of Red...
  
   (born 1958), American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
• Maya Ritter
  Maya Ritter
  Maya Ritter is a young Canadian actress.- Career :Maya Ritter is a Canadian actress who played the lead role of Molly McIntire in the 2006 television movie Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front.She also starred in The film Finn's Girl as Zelly in 2007. That same year she acted in Hoilday...
  
   (born 1993), Canadian actress
• Ole Ritter
  Ole Ritter
  Ole Ritter is a former Danish racing cyclist.-Amateur years:As an amateur he rode for ABC Denmark....
  
   (born 1941), Danish professional cyclist
• Paul Ritter (disambiguation)
• Preston Ritter
  Preston Ritter
  Preston James Ritter , is a drummer, drum teacher and author of drum methods. He played on The Electric Prunes first album and two hit singles before being replaced by their original drummer Michael Weakley during recording of their second album.-External links:* ....
  
  , American rock drummer
• Rex Ritter, lead guitarist for the American band Jessamine
  Jessamine (band)
  Jessamine was a band that recorded three albums for Kranky records between 1994 and 1998 and a number of singles for other record labels. These singles were later collected by the band on a self-released compilation album....
  
   1994–1998
• Robert Ritter
  Robert Ritter
  Robert Ritter, Ph. D. was a German psychologist and physician best known for his work related to the Roma people, that contributed to repressive measures against them....
  
   (1901–c. 1951), German psychologist whose work led to the genocide of the Roma people in Nazi Germany
• Robert M. Ritter (publisher), compiler of The Oxford Guide to Style (2002) and New Hart's Rules
  Hart's Rules
  Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford was an authoritative reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press...
  
  (2006)
• Scott Ritter
  Scott Ritter
  William Scott Ritter, Jr. was an important United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass...
  
   (born 1961), chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq 1991–1998
• Sylvester Ritter (1952–1998), ring name Junkyard Dog
  Junkyard Dog
  Sylvester Ritter was an American professional wrestler and professional football player, best known for his work in Mid-South Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as The Junkyard Dog...
  
  , American professional wrestler
• Tex Ritter
  Tex Ritter
  Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
  
   (1905–1974), American singer and actor, father of John Ritter
• Thelma Ritter
  Thelma Ritter
  Thelma Ritter was an American supporting and character actress from the 1940s until her death in 1969.-Early life:...
  
   (1902–1969), American actress
• Tyson Ritter (born 1984), American musician, lead singer and bassist for The All-American Rejects
• William Emerson Ritter
  William Emerson Ritter
  William Emerson Ritter, Ph.D. was an American biologist. Ritter initiated and shaped the Marine Biological Association of San Diego and the American Society for the Dissemination of Science...
  
   (1856–1944), American biologist
• Mary Ritter Beard
  Mary Ritter Beard
  Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman's rights movements...
  
   (1876–1958), American historian and campaigner for woman's suffrage
• F. Ritter Shumway
  F. Ritter Shumway
  Frank Ritter Shumway was a major figure in figure skating in the United States.From 1951 to 1965, he was president of the Ritter Company, a dental chair manufacturer founded by his grandfather Frank Ritter, and later led the company's successor, the Sybron Corporation...
  
   (1906–1992), major figure in American figure skating
• Albert Ritter Conti v.Cedassamare
  Albert Ritter Conti v.Cedassamare
  Albert Ritter Conti v. Cedassamare .- Life :Born in Trieste, and died in Hollywood, California, USA, he was an actor, but first he specialized in law and natural science, married with Patricia Cross, when start the World War I, he involved was an officer, like your father Albert Ritter...
  
   (1887–1967), Italian-American character actor
• Pavao Ritter Vitezović
  Pavao Ritter Vitezovic
  Pavao Ritter Vitezović was a noted Croatian writer, historian, linguist and publisher.-Early life:Pavao Ritter Vitezović was born in Senj to a family of a frontier soldier. His father was descended from a German immigrant from Alsace, and his mother was Croatian...
  
   (1652–1713), Croatian writer, historian, linguist, and publisher
• Rebecca Ritters
  Rebecca Ritters
  Rebecca Ritters is an Australian actress, mostly known for her role as Hannah Martin in the soap opera Neighbours. She first appeared in the show in 1992 when she was eight years old and remained in the show for a further seven years...
  
   (born 1984), Australian actress
• paniq, real name Leonard Ritter (born 1980), German composer, coder, graphic artist, and writer
• Stephen Geoffreys
  Stephen Geoffreys
  -Life and career:Born Stephen Geoffrey Miller in Cincinnati, Ohio, Geoffreys first began acting on the stage. In 1984, he was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical" for his performance in a play based on the The Human Comedy...
  
   (born 1964), American actor who used the screen name Sam Ritter in pornographic films
• Tyson Jay Ritter (Born 1984), Singer/ All-American Reject

Fictional characters

• Donald & Deborah Ritter
  Donald & Deborah Ritter
  Donald & Deborah Ritter are fictional characters from Marvel Comics. They are the twin children of Thena, leader of the Eternals, and Kro, sometime leader of the race of Deviants. The Ritter twins were created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas and Mark Texeira...
  
  , characters from Marvel Comics
• Dr. Philip Ritter, a character played by Paul Henreid in the 1952 film Stolen Face
  Stolen Face
  Stolen Face is a British film noir directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions. With its theme of a man who, after the sudden end of a powerful romance with a beautiful blonde tries to recreate her by altering the appearance of another woman, it is clearly a forerunner of Vertigo...
  
  
• Weiss Ritter, a robot in the Super Robot Wars series
• Rein Weiss Ritter, a robot in the Super Robot Wars series