| Intro | American cartoonist and amateur astronomer |
| Was |
Astronomer Cartoonist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Arts Science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 5 November 1852, Saugerties, New York, U.S.A. |
| Death |
1938 (aged 85 years) |
| Star sign | Scorpio |
Leon Barritt (1852–1938) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, journalist, and amateur astronomer. He produced a famous cartoon satirizing Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, co-invented with Garrett P. Serviss the Barritt–Serviss Star and Planet Finder, a popular star chart sold into the 1950s, and, after losing his artistic ability to paralysis, founded The Monthly Evening Sky Map magazine. Born in Saugerties, New York, he began as a news agent in his home town before moving to Boston to work as an engraver. After a year in Minnesota, he returned to New York in 1884, where he became cartoonist for the New York Press.