Famous People with Name Otis

Otis Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Smith: a former American football defensive end in the National Football League. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1988 to 1996, the Denver Broncos from 1997 to 1999, and the San Diego Chargers in 2000. Before his NFL career, he played for the University of Nebraska.One of the top defensive linemen of his era, Smith made the Pro Bowl 6 times during his career (1991 to 1995 and 1997), and led the NFL with 15 sacks in the 1993 season. With the Broncos, Smith won 2 NFL championship rings for Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII. In the 1998 Divisional Playoffs against the Miami Dolphins, Smith cemented the 38-3 Broncos victory with a 79-yard fumble return for a touchdown, and in Super Bowl XXXII, he recorded a key fumble recovery that set up a Broncos field goal

Otis Harlan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Harlan: was an American comedic actor.In 1906, he appeared in Victor Herbert's The Magic Knight. He was playing in vaudeville shows by 1911, appearing in Irving Berlin's ragtime musicals. Harlan also played the role of Cap'n Andy in the first, part-talkie film ve

Otis Dudley Duncan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Dudley Duncan: was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman.[citation needed] His book The American Occupational Structure, which received the American Sociological Associatio

Otis Griffin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Griffin: is a professional boxer who was a contestant on a reality TV show, The Next Great Champ, on Fox. After winning several bouts on the program, he was proclaimed the winner and "The Next Great Champ" when he beat David Pareja. Griffin fought on several major

Otis Grant            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Grant: is a former Jamaican boxer. As an amateur he won a silver medal for Canada at the 1987 Pan American Games, losing to Cuba's Angel Espinosa in the final. Otis Grant, along with his brother Howard Grant, own a boxing gym in Dollard Des Ormeaux, Montreal, wh

Charles Otis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Otis: was a Canadian Olympic fencer. He competed in five events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Theodore Otis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Theodore Otis: was an American politician, who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the seventh Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1859 to 1860.

Harrison Gray Otis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison Gray Otis: was a businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists. He is a member of the Otis family. In 1794 he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1796 was

James Otis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Otis: was a politician from San Francisco, California. James Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 11, 1826 Otis then moved to San Francisco for the 1849 California Gold Rush. Otis then became an importer and exporter in San Francisco. He then became

John Grant Otis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Grant Otis: was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, in May 1859 and commenced the practice of law. Assisted in recruiting the first black regiment of Kansas in 1862. Paymaster general of the Governor's military staff from February 1863 to 1