John Everett Otto (born March 22, 1977 in Jacksonville, Florida) is the drummer and an original member of the band Limp Bizkit. Unlike many modern drummers, he learned jazz-style drumming.

John Otto (1929 - 1999) was a radio talk show host in western New York. He began his broadcasting career in the 1940s, and hosted programming at WBNY, WGR, and WWKB until the late 1990s, when his health declined. He was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers' Hall of Fame in 1998. He died in Buffalo, New York of emphysema.

On Colorado's magnificent Western Slope lies one of the supreme landscapes of the West, the monoliths and canyons of Colorado National Monument. Almost as legendary as this Mars-like setting, however, is the memory of John Otto, Colorado National Monument's founding father and truly one of the more eccentric characters to have found employment with the National Park Service. Tried three times for insanity (and found sane on each occasion), accused of attempting to assassinate the Governor Colorado (and later exonerated), and often dressed in a green shirt with colored stars for buttons, John Otto became the Monument's first custodian and most ardent booster.

His crankish sense of humor once prompted him to propose renaming the monument "Smith National Park" (the commercial possibilities were "stupendous," he wrote), a ludicrous suggestion made even more so by the fact the local newspaper took it seriously and endorsed it.

An early women's rights advocate, he was married briefly and later awarded alimony from the bride who deserted him. For the residents of turn-of-the-century Grand Junction, John Otto -- "the world's greatest radical of the safe kind," as he described himself -- might as well have been from another planet. Nevertheless, his legend lives on as one who almost single-handedly built the trails that now traverse Colorado National Monument.

Books on the subject: "John Otto of Colorado National Monument," Alan J. Kania, ISBN 0-911797-04-01, cloth; 0911797-03-3 paper; 160 pages, Roberts-Rinehart Publisher, Boulder, CO; illustrated, out-of-print.

"John Otto: Trials and Trails," Alan J. Kania, ISBN 0-87081-384-6, cloth; 400 pages, University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO; illustrated, out-of-print except through author. Third edition paperback due in Spring 2008 through Xlibris Publishing.