diff --git a/Lib/mimetypes.py b/Lib/mimetypes.py
index b33051f5331514..dad3813e39dbae 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetypes.py
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ def _default_mime_types():
         '.pl'     : 'text/plain',
         '.srt'    : 'text/plain',
         '.rtx'    : 'text/richtext',
+        '.rtf'    : 'text/rtf',
         '.tsv'    : 'text/tab-separated-values',
         '.vtt'    : 'text/vtt',
         '.py'     : 'text/x-python',
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py b/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
index cc9bae893bb55a..30e1c56bf0bc52 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ def check_extensions():
             self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('message/rfc822'), '.eml')
             self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('text/html'), '.html')
             self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('text/plain'), '.txt')
+            self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('text/rtf'), '.rtf')
             self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('video/mpeg'), '.mpeg')
             self.assertEqual(mimetypes.guess_extension('video/quicktime'), '.mov')
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-05-09-33-48.gh-issue-97901.BOLluU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-05-09-33-48.gh-issue-97901.BOLluU.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4d2bd65ea1fee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-10-05-09-33-48.gh-issue-97901.BOLluU.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Mime type ``text/rtf`` is now supported by :mod:`mimetypes`.