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Orcadians
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 21,349 currently resident population of Orkney | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mainland, Orkney | 17,162[1] |
| South Ronaldsay | 909[1] |
| Westray | 588[1] |
| Languages | |
Insular Scots, Scottish English. Historically Norn and Pictish | |
| Religion | |
| Presbyterianism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Scots and Britons (especially Shetlanders), Ulster Scots, Falkland Islanders, Norwegians, Faroese, Icelanders and Anglo-Metis. | |
Orcadians are the people who live in or come from the Orkney islands of Scotland.
Historically, they are descended from the Picts,[2][Notes 1]Norse and Scots.
Contents
1 Well-known Orcadians
2 People associated with Orkney
3 See also
4 References
Well-known Orcadians
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
J. 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 (1909–1970), 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 the University of Edinburgh and editor of the 8th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Cameron Stout (b. 1971) winner of Big Brother in 2003, brother of Julyan Sinclair
Margaret Tait (1918-1999), film maker and poet
Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson (died 1158), known as Thorbjorn the Clerk, viking
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
People associated with Orkney
- Rev. Matthew Armour (1820–1903), Sanday's radical Free Kirk Minister[4]
Sweyn Asleifsson or Sveinn Ásleifarson (c. 1115 – 1171), Viking, born in Caithness, who appears in the Orkneyinga Saga
V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957), Australian archaeologist and philologist who excavated Maeshowe- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016), composer and Master of the Queen's Music
John Gow (c.1698–1725), notorious pirate
Andrew Greig (b. 1951), writer
Jo Grimond (1913–1993), Liberal Party leader and MP for Orkney and Shetland 1950–1983
David Harvey (b. 1948), footballer
Ingibiorg Finnsdottir (died c 1069), wife of Thorfinn the Mighty, mother of Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson, subsequently queen of Scotland
Eric Linklater (1899–1974), novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist and poet
Margaret, Maid of Norway (1283–1290, Orkney), Queen of Scots and a Norwegian princess
Robert Shaw (1927–1978), English actor and novelist
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
See also
- Earldom of Orkney
Prehistoric Orkney, for the ancient Orcadians
References
- Footnotes
^ Ritchie notes the presence of an Orcadian ruler at the court of a Pictish high king at Inverness in 565 AD.[3]
- Citations
^ abc National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013) (pdf) Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland - Release 1C (Part Two). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland’s inhabited islands". Retrieved 17 August 2013.
^ Thomson (2008) pp. 4-6.
^ Ritchie, Anna "The Picts" in Omand (2003) p. 39
^ "Centenary of a radical kirk minister" Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine. The Orcadian. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- General references
- Omand, Donald (ed.) (2003) The Orkney Book. Edinburgh. Birlinn. .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
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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