Olita Rause (born November 21, 1962) is a Latvian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1993) and International Master (IM, 1995).
She also holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Grandmaster (GM, 1998).
In 1986, Rause played for Latvia in Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship in Minsk at second board.
[3] Rause graduated from the University of Latvia with a Master of Philology degree.
From December 2001 to February 2017 she worked as the editor in chief for Janis Roze Publishers in Riga.