Otis

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Otis can refer to:

[edit] People

• Amos Otis, a professional baseball player
• Elisha Otis, inventor of a safety device for hoisting machinery, who went on to invent the first passenger elevator
• Elwell Otis, an American general who served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars
• Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917), a publisher of the Los Angeles Times
• Harrison Gray Otis (lawyer) (1765-1848), a representative and senator from Massachusetts
• James Otis:
  • James Otis, Jr. (1725–1783), American revolutionary politician
  • James Otis, pen name of James Otis Kaler (1848 — 1912), American journalist and author of children’s literature
  • James Otis (politician) (1826–1875), mayor of San Francisco, California
  • James Otis (actor), American film and television actor
• William Otis, inventor of the steam shovel
• Otis R. Bowen, the former governor of Indiana and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Otis Grant, a professional boxer
• Otis King, inventor
• Otis Nixon, former Major League Baseball player
• Otis Redding, musician
• Otis Rush, bluesman

[edit] Fictional characters

• Otis the Aardvark, a BBC puppet character
• Otis, one of the minor characters in Monkey Island, a computer game series
• Otis, a puppy in The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• Otis Campbell, the town drunk on the Andy Griffith Show
• Otis B. Driftwood, a fictional character that has appeared in the Rob Zombie horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects taken from the character of the same name popularized by Groucho Marx
• Otis (Superman), an associate of Lex Luthor, in the films Superman and Superman II

[edit] Animal

• Otis tarda genus, the Great Bustard

[edit] Colleges

• Otis College of Art and Design, a private four-year art college located in Los Angeles, California; formerly known as Otis Art Institute and Otis/Parsons

[edit] Places

Canada

• Saint-Félix-d'Otis, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec
• Otis township, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

United States

• Otis, Colorado
• Otis, Indiana
• Otis, Kansas
• Otis, Maine
• Otis, Massachusetts
• Otis ANGB, Massachusetts
• Otis, Oregon
• Otis Orchards-East Farms, Washington

Germany

• Otisstraße, a street and underground metro station in Berlin on the U6 line

[edit] Businesses

• The Otis Elevator Company, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, and the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems, principally elevators and escalators

[edit] Albums

• Otis (album), by Mojo Nixon

[edit] Other

• Otis (Prison Break episode)
• Otis (film)