Orcadians

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Orcadians

Total population
20,000
Regions with significant populations
Orkney 48,322 (2007)
Languages
Insular Scots, Scottish English. Historically Norn and Pictish
Religion
Presbyterianism
Related ethnic groups
Shetlanders, Faroese, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danes, Scottish, Irish and Anglo-Metis

Orcadians, who reside primarily in Orkney, are the descendants of Iron Age Picts,^{[1][Notes 1]} Norwegian Vikings and Scots. Because Orkney is 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 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

People associated with Orkney [edit]

• Rev. Matthew Armour (1820–1903), Sanday's radical Free Kirk Minister^[3]
• 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 [edit]

Footnotes

Citations

General references

• Omand, Donald (ed.) (2003) The Orkney Book. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-254-9
• Thomson, William P. L. (2008) The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0

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