In the TV series 'The Lone Ranger', was it ever known what the Lone Ranger's real full name was?

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The Lone Ranger's first nameAlthough the Lone Ranger's last name is given as Reid, his first name is not definitely specified. According to the story told in the radio series, the group of six ambushed Rangers was headed by Reid's brother, Captain Dan Reid. Some later radio reference books, beginning with Radio's Golden Age (Eastern Valley Press, 1966), claimed that the Lone Ranger's first name was John;[14] however, both the radio and television programs avoided mentioning his first name. His first name also was not mentioned in contemporaneous Lone Ranger newspaper comics, comic books, and tie-in premiums. Fran Striker's obituary (1962) and a Gold Key Comics (1964) retelling of the origin both stated that "Dan" was the Lone Ranger's first name, not his brother's.[citation needed] Purported middle names for Dan and John Reid are of unknown origin and were apparently invented by later writers. It appears that the first use of the name "John Reid" in media was in a scene in the 1981 big-screen film The Legend of the Lone Ranger in which the surviving Reid digs an extra grave for himself. This appeared to give the use of the first name John a degree of official standing, although the name "Luke Hartman" was used in the 2003 TV-movie/unsold series pilot. The name "John Reid" also appears in a recent Lone Ranger comic book series. But Lone Ranger fans consider the name "John" non-canonical. It has been said in jest that The Lone Ranger's first name actually is "The." The name of Captain Reid's son, the Lone Ranger's nephew, a later character first introduced in the radio series, who became a sort of juvenile sidekick to the Masked Man, is also Dan Reid. When Trendle and Striker later created The Green Hornet, they made this Dan Reid the father of Britt Reid, alias the Green Hornet, thereby making the Lone Ranger the Green Hornet's great-uncle.[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger Dec 10 12, 11:47 PM

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His real name - Harold J. Smith was born May 26, 1912, on the Six Nations Reservation in Canada. He was the third of 11 children, eight boys and three girls. His father, Major George Smith, was the most decorated Native Canadian soldier in World War I. According to Jay's brother, Les Smith, their father was deaf thanks to a bomb that exploded near him during the war. http://www.lonerangerfanclub.com/jaysilverheels.html The Lone Ranger, John Reid, first came to be after he was gunned down by Butch Cavendish's men along with his father and brother. He managed to claw out of his grave, and then started stopping western criminals everywhere. He was found by Tonto who declared that he was the only one left, a lone ranger. That is how he came up with the name. Tonto nursed John back to health and then decided to join up with John at stopping crime. John eventually got revenge on Cavendish's gang, and then set off to fight more criminals, and save more lives Lone Ranger's Name And Legacy Lone Ranger doesn't necessarily have a first name. In the radio series where he first came from, his first name was never revealed, his last name is Reid though. Eventually though, his name was revealed in an origin story in 1962. It stated that Ranger's brother Dan was not really named that, Dan was Ranger's real first name. But in a movie made in 1982, it is revealed Lone Ranger's first name is really John. His last name has been and always has been Reid though. The Green Hornet shares the last name Reid with the family members who became the Green Hornet. In Now Comics, The Lone Ranger is the Grandfather of the first Green Hornet . Now, he is referred to as John Reid. http://www.comicvine.com/lone-ranger/29-9231/ Dec 11 12, 9:09 AM