Pentland

Pentland may refer to:

Places

In Scotland:
*Pentland Firth, a strait between Orkney and Caithness in the far north
*Pentland Skerries, a group of islands lying in the Pentland Firth
*Pentland Hills, a range just south of Edinburgh in the south east
** Pentland Rising, or Battle of Rullion Green, a key conflict in the development of Scottish Presbyterianism
*Edinburgh Pentlands, the name of two parliamentary constituencies

Elsewhere
* Pentland, Queensland, Australia
* Pentland Corners, Ontario, Canada, a community in Centre Wellington
* Pentland Township, Michigan, United States

People

* Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873), Irish geographer
* Baron Pentland, an extinct hereditary peerage in the UK
** John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925), Scottish politician
** Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (1907–1984)
* Alexander Pentland (1884–1983), Australian World War I flying ace
* Alex Pentland (b. 1951), MIT Professor and entrepreneur
* Barbara Pentland (1912-2000), Canadian composer
* Fred Pentland (1883—1962), English footballer and manager
* Norman Pentland (1912–1972), British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street
* Patrick Pentland (b. 1969), Irish musician and member of the Canadian rock band, Sloan

* Pentland Hick (b. 1919), British entrepreneur and author

Other

* Pentland (crater), on the moon
* Pentland Ferries which operates in the Pentland Firth
* Pentland Group plc, a privately held, global brand management company based in the UK
* Pentland's Tinamou ("Tinamotis pentlandii"), a tropical bird