Otis (surname)

Otis is a surname of English origin and may have been a variant spelling of the English name Oates.

Amos Otis (born 1947), American retired Major League Baseball player
Bill Otis (1889–1990), American Major League Baseball player
Charles Otis (disambiguation)
Elisha Otis (1811–1861), American inventor and industrialist, inventor of an elevator safety device and founder of Otis Elevator Company
Eliza Ann Otis (1833–1904), American poet, journalist, and philanthropist, co-founder, publisher and associate editor of the Los Angeles Times newspaper
Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), American general who served in the Civil War, Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War
George Demont Otis (1879–1962), American landscape painter
George L. Otis (1829–1882), American lawyer and politician
Glenn K. Otis (1929–2013), US Army four-star general
Harrison Gray Otis (politician) (1765–1848), American politician and senator from Massachusetts
Harrison Gray Otis (publisher) (1837–1917), a publisher of the Los Angeles Times
James Otis (disambiguation)
John Otis (Maine politician) (1801–1856), U.S. Representative from Maine
John G. Otis (1838–1916), U.S. Representative from Kansas
John Lord Otis (1827-1894), American Civil War officer and Massachusetts state senator and state representative
Johnny Otis (1921–2012), American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer and talent scout
Leon Otis, a psychologist and skeptic of parapsychology research at SRI
Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), née Otis, American activist poet, playwright and pamphleteer during the American Revolution
Samuel Allyne Otis (1740–1814), American politician and first Secretary of the United States Senate
Samuel Shackford Otis (1891–1974), American architect
Shuggie Otis (born 1953), American songwriter, recording artist and multi-instrumentalist
Todd Otis (born 1945), American politician
William Otis (1813–1839), American inventor of the steam shovel

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