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Orcadians

Total population
20,000
Regions with significant populations
Orkney islands 48,322 2007  Shetland N/A  Scotland N/A  England N/A
Languages
Insular Scots,Scottish English
Religion
Presbyterianism
Related ethnic groups
Norwegians, Danes, Faroese, Icelanders, Shetlanders, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Metis, and English people

Orcadians, who reside primarily in Orkney, are the descendants of Celtic Picts and Norwegian Vikings. Due to Orkney being a trading hub Orcadians are found all over the world.

• Jim Baikie British comics artist, who is best known for his work with Alan Moore on Skizz.
• William Balfour Baikie (1825-1864), explorer and naturalist
• George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), poet, author, playwright
• Mary Brunton (1778-1818), author of Self-Control, Discipline and other novels
• Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976), artist
• William Towrie Cutt (1898-1981), author
• Walter Traill Dennison (1826-1894), Orcadian folklorist
• Kris Drever, folk singer and guitarist
• Magnus Erlendsson (Saint Magnus) (c.1070-c.1117), Earl of Orkney c.1105-1117
• Matthew Forster Heddle (1828-1897), mineralogist, author of The Mineralogy of Scotland
• Malcolm Laing (1762-1818), author of the History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
• Samuel Laing (1780-1868), author of A Residence in Norway, and translator of the Heimskringla, the Icelandic chronicle of the kings of Norway
• Samuel Laing (1812-1897), chairman of the London, Brighton & South Coast railway, and introducer of the system of "parliamentary" trains with fares of one penny a mile.
• Kristin Linklater, born 1946, voice teacher, actor, director and author
• Magnus Linklater (b.1942), journalist, son of Eric Linklater
• John D Mackay (b.1909), headmaster and Orkney patriot
• Murdoch McKenzie (d.1797), hydrographer
• Edwin Muir (1887-1959), author and poet
• Dr. John Rae (1813-1893), Arctic explorer
• Rognvald Kali Kolsson (Saint Rognvald) (c.1103-1158), Earl of Orkney 1136-1158
• Julyan Sinclair, television presenter
• Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862), professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University and editor of the 8th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Cameron Stout (b.1971) winner of Big Brother in 2003, brother of Julyan Sinclair
• William Walls (1819-1893), lawyer and industrialist
• Wrigley twins Jennifer and Hazel, international folk duo

People associated with Orkney

• Rev. Matthew Armour (1820-1903), Sanday's radical Free Kirk Minister^[1]
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934), composer and Master of the Queen's Music
• Andrew Greig (b.1951), Scottish writer
• Jo Grimond (1913-1993), Liberal Party leader and MP for Orkney and Shetland 1950-1983
• David Harvey (b.1948), footballer
• Eric Linklater (1899-1974), novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist and poet
• William Sichel (b.1951), ultra distance runner
• Luke Sutherland (b.1971), writer of novels Jelly Roll, Sweetmeat and Venus as a Boy
• Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness (b.1954), former MP for Orkney and Shetland (1983-2001), MSP for Orkney (1999-2007), Deputy First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

References

1. ^ "Centenary of a radical kirk minister" The Orcadian. Retrieved 4 October 2008.