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* 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 Encyclopædia Britannica * Cameron Stout (b.1971) winner of Big Brother in 2003, brother of Julyan Sinclair * William Walls (1819 � 1893), lawyer and industrialist * The Wrigley Sisters Jennifer and Hazel, international folk duo |
