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