John Joseph Patrick Ryan, better known as Jack Lord (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998)
Jack Lord will probably be the best remembered as Steve McGarett in the long running television series "Hawaii Five-O" (aired 1968-1980), but he was much more than that however. He starred in several movies, directed several episodes of his show, was in several Broadway productions, and was an accomplished artist. Two of his paintings were acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum of Modern Art by the time he was twenty. Lord was also known for being a very cultured man who loved reading poetry out loud on the set of his TV show and as being somewhat reclusive at his Honolulu home.