Rio 2

Rio Kishida was a Japanese playwright and director. She wrote several plays about women and the problems they faced in a patriarchal society that run parallel with the second wave of the feminist movement in Japan. Even though she did not strictly identify herself as a feminist, she believed that the system of a male dominated society had to change in order for women to gain equal rights as their male counterpart.

Rio Matsumoto is a Japanese actress, model and singer. She has had a prolific career in television drama series since the mid-1990s and since 2003 has also been in several films. She was formerly known as Megumi Matsumoto.

Rio Sasaki is a Japanese child actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She is a part of the Himawari Theatre Group.

In the manga D・N・ANGEL the mother of Satoshi is called Rio (理緒).

Duran Duran song, "Rio".