Gritakumar E. Chitty

Gritakumar E. Chitty (14 June 1939 – 6 January 2022) was a Sri Lankan jurist and career diplomat at the United Nations.

He was born in British Ceylon to George Edmund Chitty QC, a Sri Lankan criminal attorney.

Chitty was educated at Royal College, Colombo and later joined the Law Faculty of the University of Ceylon, which he graduated in 1965.

Following which in 1967, he joined the Sri Lanka Law College to sit for the Attorney's exam, and took oaths the following year as an advocate.

Chitty represented Sri Lanka at the Asian Games and was a private entry at the World Shooting Championships in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1966, where he placed 110th with a score of 578 in the 60 shots prone.