Lyle Tuttle

Lyle Tuttle (October 7, 1931 – March 25, 2019) was an American tattoo artist and historian. He was tattooing since 1949. He was born in Chariton, Iowa. Tuttle tattooed Janis Joplin, Cher, Jo Baker, Henry Fonda, Paul Stanley, Joan Baez, the Allman Brothers and many others.
Tuttle taught seminars in "Tattoo machine maintenance and machine building" at tattoo conventions around the United States. He is the only person in the world to have tattooed people in all seven continents.
Tuttle died on March 25, 2019 in Ukiah, California at the age of 87.