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Orcadians
Orcadians are the native population of the Orkney islands. Historically, they are descended from the Picts, Norse and Scots.
- 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
- Dr David Clouston (1871–1948), author and agriculturalist
- Joseph Storer Clouston (1870–1944), author and historian
- Thomas Clouston (1840–1915), psychiatrist, Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum
- James Copland (1791–1870), physician and prolific medical writer
- 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
- John Flett (geologist) (1869-1947) and his son William Roberts Flett FRSE (1900-1979) also a geologist
- 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
- Ernest Marwick (1915–1977), writer noted for his writings on Orkney folklore and history
- Murdoch McKenzie (d.1797), hydrographer
- F. Marian McNeill (1885–1973) folklorist, best known for writing The Silver Bough
- Edwin Muir (1887–1959), author and poet
- Dr. John Rae (1813–1893), Arctic explorer
- Robert Rendall (1898–1967), poet, and amateur naturalist
- Rognvald Kali Kolsson (Saint Rognvald) (c.1103–1158), Earl of Orkney 1136–1158
- Julyan Sinclair, television presenter
- Bessie Skea aka Bessie Grieve (1923-1996), writer of prose and poetry about nature and Orkney life
- Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University and editor of the 8th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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- Margaret Tait (1918-1999), film maker and poet
- James Wallace (fl. 1684–1724), physician and botanist
- William Walls (1819–1893), lawyer and industrialist
- Thomas Webster (1772–1844), geologist and architect
- Sylvia Wishart (1936–2008), landscape artist
- The Wrigley Sisters Jennifer and Hazel, international folk duo