Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck
Left to right: Louie, Dewey, and Huey
First appearance	Donald Duck Sunday newspaper strip, 1937
Created by	Ted Osborne Al Taliaferro
Voiced by	Clarence Nash (1938–1965) The Mellomen (Scrooge McDuck and Money) Russi Taylor (1987–present) Tony Anselmo (1987, 1999–present) In Quack Pack: Huey: Jeannie Elias Dewey: Pamela Adlon Louie: Elizabeth Daily In DuckTales (2017): Huey: Danny Pudi Dewey: Ben Schwartz Louie: Bobby Moynihan
Information
Full name	Huebert Duck, Deuteronomy Duck and Louis Duck (Quack Pack)
Species	American Pekin duck
Occupation	students (trained scouts)
Family	Duck family
Relatives	Donald Duck (uncle, legal guardian) Scrooge McDuck (great-uncle)
Nationality	American

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are triplet cartoon characters created in 1937 by writer Ted Osborne and cartoonist Al Taliaferro, and are owned by The Walt Disney Company. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the nephews of Donald Duck and the grandnephews of Scrooge McDuck. Like their uncles, the boys are anthropomorphic white ducks with yellow-orange beaks and feet. They typically wear shirts and colorful baseball caps, which are sometimes used to differentiate each character. Huey, Dewey and Louie have made several animated appearances in both films and television, but comics remain their primary medium. The trio are collectively the 11th most published comic book characters in the world, and outside of the superhero genre, second only to Donald.

While the boys were originally created as mischief-makers to provoke Donald's famous temper, later appearances showed them to be valuable assets to him and Scrooge on their adventures. All three of the boys are members of the fictional scouting organization the Junior Woodchucks.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were the idea of Al Taliaferro, the artist for the Silly Symphonies comic strip, which featured Donald Duck. The Walt Disney Productions Story Dept. on February 5, 1937, sent Taliaferro a memo recognizing him as the source of the idea for the planned short, Donald's Nephews. The nephews debuted in Taliaferro's comic strip, which by this time had been renamed Donald Duck, on Sunday, October 17, 1937, beating the theatrical release of Donald's Nephews by almost six months. The names were devised by Disney gag man Dana Coty, who took them from Huey Long, Thomas Dewey, and Louis Schmitt, an animator at the Disney Studio in the 1930s and 1940s. Taliaferro's introduction of the nephews emulated the three nephews in the Happy Hooligan comic strip and was also influenced by Mickey Mouse's nephews, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse.