| Rita Sargsyan | |
| Birth Name: | Rita Aleksandri Dadayan |
| Office: | First Lady of Armenia |
| Term Label: | In role |
| President: | Serzh Sargsyan |
| Term Start: | 9 April 2008 |
| Term End: | 9 April 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Bella Kocharyan |
| Successor: | Nouneh Sarkissian |
| Term Label2: | In role |
| Office2: | Spouse of the Prime Minister of Armenia |
| Primeminister2: | Serzh Sargsyan |
| Term Start2: | 17 April 2018 |
| Term End2: | 23 April 2018 |
| Predecessor2: | Lilit Karapetyan |
| Successor2: | Lilit Karapetyan (Acting) |
| Term Label3: | In role |
| Primeminister3: | Serzh Sargsyan |
| Term Start3: | 4 April 2007 |
| Term End3: | 9 April 2008 Acting: 25 March 2007 – 4 April 2007 |
| Predecessor3: | Susanna Margaryan |
| Successor3: | Gohar Sargsyan |
| Birth Date: | 6 March 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Yerevan, Armenia |
| Nationality: | Armenian |
| Profession: | Music teacher |
| Blank1: | Religion |
| Data1: | Armenian Apostolic Church |
Rita Aleksandri Sargsyan (Armenian: Ռիտա Ալեքսանդրի Սարգսյան, née Dadayan (Armenian: Դադայան), 6 March 1962 – 20 November 2020[1]) was the wife of Serzh Sargsyan, the President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018.
She was born to a military family and was a music teacher by profession.[2] [3]
In 1983, she married her husband Serzh. They have two daughters, Anush and Satenik and four grandchildren, Mariam, Rita, Ara, and Serzh.[4] [5] [6]
Rita Sargsyan sponsored the Donate Life charity foundation, which assists children suffering from blood cancer and other severe diseases, as well as the Autism and Aragil national foundations. Since 2010 on Sargsyan was the Chairperson of Board of Trustees of the Foundation. The following international competitions were held under the auspices of First Lady Sargsyan, with notable events having included the Aram Khachaturian International Contest of Classical Music and the Yerevan International Music Festival hosted by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
On 20 November 2020, Rita Sargsyan died from COVID-19 at the age of 58. Condolences were given by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, noting that she "led valuable social and public activities aimed at fostering cultural life in the country."[7] President Armen Sarksyan personally visited Serzh to express his condolences.[8]