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Thomas Adams 1871-1940 Carlops farmer to the Garden Cities of tomorrow

Jim Aitken 1947- Scotland’s legendary Grand Slam rugby skipper

Helen Bannerman 1862-1946 artist writer of children’s stories

Thomas Bouch 1822-1880  engineer of the Penicuik railway who came to grief

Athole Cameron 1923-1992 teacher and writer

Agnes Campbell, Lady Roseburn 1637-1716 printer, publisher, papermill owner

Sir John Clerk FRS 1637-1716 talented designer, composer, landowner

Alexander Cowan 1775-1859 papermaker and philanthropist

Samuel Rutherford Crockett 1860-1914 free church minister & popular novelist

James Cossar Ewart FRS 1851-1933 zoologist and animal breeder

Marjorie Fidler 1734-1819 Penicuik’s eighteenth century businesswoman

James Finlayson 1772-1852 founder of Finland’s second city

James Arnot Hamilton 1923- Concorde designer

Cargill Gilson Knott FRS 1856-1922 mathematician, pioneer seismologist in Japan

John Leadbetter 1788-1865  linen merchant & railway developer

Siobhan Miller 1987- rising folk singer of rare gifts

Geoff Palmer 1940- world grain scientist & Scotland-Jamaica historian

Nabil Shaban 1953- well-known actor, writer, film-maker

Albert Watson 1942-    one of the worlds leading photographers

Jonathan Whitfield 1946- US expert in neonatal and pediatric critical care

Andrew Hastie Wilson Canada’s eminent engineer 

CTR Wilson FRS 1869-1959 Nobel laureate, inventor of the cloud chamber

John & William Young (1815-1906) Gas, water and shale oil engineers

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