Elisha Otis invented a guard for hoisting machinery & went in to invent a 1st rider elevator. Harrison Gray Otis was a publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Otis Ray Bowen, the previous governor of Indiana and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. the Otis Elevator Company, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, is the world's big manufacturer of vertical transportation, chiefly elevators and escalators. a demon in Christian demonology. Otisstraße, an underground metro station in Berlin on the U6 line. Otis College of Art and Design A well known private Tetrad month art college located in Los Angeles, California. Otis Redding the musician Otis the aardvark, a BBC puppet character