THE greatest CLANS; 1: MACDONALD; The Lord of the Isles, a spectral black frog and the voice of Mickey Mouse propel this tribe into a league of their own

The Sunday Herald | September 14, 2003 | Copyright

Look around, and the mark of the MacDonalds is everywhere. If ever you have gone to the cinema, ordered fast food or boarded a plane, the chances are that evidence of this clan's greatness will have been right under your nose. This is, after all, the clan that co-founded the mighty McDonnell Douglas aviation firm, while Dundee's James Macdonald remains the definitive voice of Mickey Mouse.

What's more, mediaeval migration patterns suggest the clan are responsible for a certain Ronald McDonald.

Even were we to restrict ourselves to discussing the derivations of the name, that would leave ...

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