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

Notable people

• 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
• 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

See also

• Senator Otis (disambiguation)
• Otis (given name)
• Otis (disambiguation)

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Otis.
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