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PeopleNotable people connected with Penicuik include: the papermakers Agnes Campbell, Marjorie Fidler and Alexander Cowan; the founder of Finland's second city, James Finlayson; gas and oil makers John & William Young; the mathematician and seismologist Cargill Gilson Knott FRS and Penicuik's links with Japan; the zoologist James Cossar Ewart FRS; children's writer Helen Bannerman; teacher and writer Athole Cameron; Concorde's Delta Wing Designer, James Hamilton and grain scientist Geoff Palmer. | ||