Editing Kirkwall (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Conran of Orkney]], 7th-century Bishop of the Orkneys<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXgTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA155 |accessdate=2021-08-19|location=London |publisher=John Murphy
 |last=Butler |first=Alban |title=The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints |volume=2|year=1821|page=155}}</ref>
* [[Stanley Cursiter]], [[Painter and Limner]], born in East Road<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002 |publisher=[[The Royal Society of Edinburgh]] |date=July 2006 |access-date=2018-08-19 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Ola Gorie]], jewellery designer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/dec/08/shopping.shoppingdirectory89 |title=Shopping directory: Jewellery: Scotland &#124; Life and style |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 8 December 2007|accessdate=2016-02-04}}</ref> 
* [[Peter Marshall (historian)|Peter Marshall]]. He was educated in Kirkwall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Peter Marshall |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/pmarshall/ |website=Department of History |publisher=University of Warwick |access-date=15 November 2018}}</ref>
* [[Aeneas Francon Williams|Clara Anne Williams]] (née Rendall) (Kirkwall, 24 July 1887),<ref>Clara Anne Rendall birth details:https://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I390219&tree=ID1 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001074632/https://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I390219&tree=ID1 |date=1 October 2021 }}</ref> missionary, teacher, wife of Rev. [[Aeneas Francon Williams]], was awarded the [[Emperor of India|Kaisar-i-Hind]] medal in 1946 for her work during [[World War II|WWII]] being in-charge of [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]] work in [[Dooars]], [[Bengal]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Medical News |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |date=December 1945 |volume=80 |issue=12 |pages=629–632 |pmc=5218119 |pmid=29015760 }}</ref>
* [[Ann Scott-Moncrieff]], author and writer<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 10, 1943 |title=Obituary: Mrs. Ann Scott-Moncrieff |page=6 |work=The Glasgow Herald |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19430310&id=vDRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4890,3650973 |access-date=September 26, 2023}}</ref>