Christian Ritter (probably 1645 to 1650 – probably after 1725) was a composer and organist of the North German organ school.
Ritter may have left Halle in 1677, as the role of Kammerorganist was filled by Johann Philipp Krieger that year.
In 1717, he described himself in a letter to Johann Mattheson as "Emeritus, who did his part at the royal, electoral and princely courts for more than 30 years in re musica".
Best known among his sacred works is O amantissime sponse Jesu, a cantata for soprano and five stringed instruments.
A number of musicologists, amongst them Hans Joachim Moser and Richard Buchmayer, author of the first major study on Ritter, assess his compositions as being of exceptionally high quality.