Disney character ‘Scrooge McDuck’ is famously known for his stingy ways with money, but now he is being regarded as a famous Glaswegian. Donald Duck’s frugal and cantankerous Caledonian uncle, who first appeared in Disney comics in 1947, has his roots in Glasgow.

The beaked multi-millionaire has now been included in Glasgow City Council’s online list of famous Glaswegians.

"We have carried out some research and were delighted to discover that Scrooge McDuck hails from Glasgow," the Scotsman quoted a spokeswoman as saying.

The online listing states that he is "the richest duck in the world; Donald Duck’s uncle and great uncle to Huey, Dewey and Louie." McDuck’s nationality is obvious given his surname and his lugubrious Scottish brogue, but his hometown remained a mystery. But an obscure US comic called The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck, published in 1996, depicts the eponymous web-footed hero growing up as a humble shoeshine boy in Glasgow, which is shown as a grey metropolis of smoking chimneys and cobbled streets.

The comic also reveals that McDuck’s ancestral clan home was in a castle based on Dismal Downs near Rannoch Moor — which was described as "as desolate a piece o’ real estate as ye’ll find anywhere in Scotland". — ANI