People from Orkney

British actor and writer (1927–1978)

Scottish explorer (1813-1893)

Scottish botanist (1792-1834)

Scottish geologist

Viking warlord, Earl of Orkney

botanist and mycologist (1851-1919)

British filmmaker, writer, poet

Scottish witch

British actor

British politician (born 1967)

Scottish physicist and applied mathematician (1861-1946)

British folklorist

Scottish psychiatrist (1840–1915)

Scottish writer and musician

Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen, are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and ancestry. Speaking Norn, a native North Germanic language into the 19th or 20th century, Orcadians descend significantly from North Germanic peoples, with around a third of their ancestry derived from Scandinavia, including a majority of their patrilineal line. According to anthropological study, the Orcadian ethnic composition is similar to that of Icelandic people; a comparable islander eth

author and historian from Orkney

Australian trade union leader and politician (1846-1926)

Orkney peer

British writer

Scottish physician and medical writer (1791–1870)

Scottish cunning woman; alleged witch (d. 1616)

Hebridean viking