Orcadians are the native population of the Orkney islands.Historically, they are descended from the Picts, Norse and Scots. * 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 * Joseph 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 * W