Notable People
Notable people connected with Penicuik include;
- Sir John Clerk, baronet, composer and leading Scottish politician during the period leading up to the 1707 Act of Union
- The Scotland rugby union captain Jim Aitken,
- The founder of Finland's second city, James Finlayson
- The mathematician and seismologist Cargill Gilston Knott FRS
- The zoologist James Cossar Ewart FRS, whose home, Craigiebield House, is now a hotel
- Children's writer Helen Bannerman
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nobel prize-winning physicist, was born at a nearby farm
- Tommy Banner, musician, The Wurzels
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