Notable People From Mainland
- William Balfour Baikie, explorer, naturalist and philologist (Kirkwall)
- Thomas Clouston, psychiatrist (Birsay)
- Stanley Cursiter, painter (Kirkwall)
- Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney
- John Firth, author of Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish
- Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, who initiated the building of St. Magnus Cathedral
- George Mackay Brown, writer, (Stromness)
- Ernest Marwick, antiquarian, (Evie)
- Edwin Muir, writer and translator, (Deerness)
- John Rae, Arctic explorer (Orphir)
- Cameron Stout, TV personality (Stromness)
- Thomas Stewart Traill, professor of medical jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh (Kirkwall)
- William Walls, lawyer, industrialist and Dean of Guild of Glasgow (Kirkwall)
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