Famous People with Name Otis

Otis Fitzgerald Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Fitzgerald Smith: is a retired American professional basketball player and current general manager of the NBA's Orlando Magic. It was with the Magic that he posted his best statistics as an NBA player, averaging in double digits in points for most of his time there.Otis Smith became a member of the Orlando Magic on June 15, 1989 as one of the 12 players selected in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft. He was on the roster for the team's inaugural game in the 1989-90 season, and he played there through the 1991-92 season. He posted career highs of 13.9 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game in 1991 with the Magic. Sadly, Smith retired with a knee injury after his sixth season, playing in 375 games, with career averages of 10.5 points per game, 3.8 rebounds per game, and 1.8 assists per game.

Otis Henry Thorpe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Henry Thorpe: is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA.A graduate of Lake Worth Community High School, Thorpe was drafted by the Kansas City Kings as the ninth overall pick in the first round of the 1984 NBA Draft and played seventeen seasons in the NBA, seven and a half of which were played with the Houston Rockets. While with the Rockets, Thorpe made his only All-Star appearance in 1992.

Otis Crandall Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Crandall Davis: is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics.Most of America's great track and field champions began their careers in high school or even earlier. But Otis Davis, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, took a different route. Basketball was his earliest game and he didn't take up track and the 400 m dash until age 26, as a student at the University of Oregon. Davis ran for the legendary Bill Bowerman. He lettered in track in 1958, 1959, and 1960.

Otis Rush            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Rush: is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes. With similar qualities to Luther Allison, Magic Sam, Buddy Guy and Albert King, his sound became known as West Side Chicago blues and became an influence on Michael Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Otis Ray Redding, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otis Ray Redding, Jr.: was an American soul singer. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."[1]

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