Government

• James Ryan (Canadian politician)
  James Ryan (Canadian politician)
  James Ryan was a political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Albert County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1870 to 1878 as a Liberal member....
  
   (1821–1892), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
• James Ryan (Irish politician) (1891–1970), Irish politician
• James Wilfrid Ryan
  James Wilfrid Ryan
  James Wilfrid Ryan was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James W. Ryan was born in Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania. He moved to Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, with his parents, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the high school of...
  
   (1858–1907), US Representative from Pennsylvania
• James L. Ryan
  James L. Ryan
  James Leo Ryan is a former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1932), American judge on the Michigan Supreme Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Jim Ryan (politician)
  Jim Ryan (politician)
  James E. Ryan is an American politician who served two four-year terms as Illinois Attorney General. A career Republican, he received his party's nomination and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Illinois against Rod Blagojevich in 2002. He has been a professor at Benedictine University since 2003...
  
   (born 1946), Attorney General of Illinois; is named James E. Ryan

Sports

• Buddy Ryan
  Buddy Ryan
  James David "Buddy" Ryan is a former American NFL football coach.-Early years:Ryan was born and reared in a small, agricultural-based community "just outside of Frederick, Oklahoma." Ryan played college football for Oklahoma A&M University where he earned four letters as a guard between 1952 and...
  
   (born 1934), former American football coach (born as James David Ryan)
• James Ryan (rugby union player born 1983) (born 1983), New Zealand rugby union footballer

Other fields

• James Ryan (actor)
  James Ryan (actor)
  -Career:In 1984, he appeared alongside Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the romantic-drama film, Falling in Love. He appeared in Five Corners alongside Jodie Foster and Tim Robbins, and stopped acting professionally in order to focus on writing and directing...
  
   (born 1952), South African actor
• James E. Ryan
  James E. Ryan
  James E. "Jim" Ryan was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer in both steeplechase and flat racing.A native of Ireland, his father, Owen J. Ryan, was the master of Cleaboy Stud in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. While working in a factory in England in his early teens, Jim Ryan began...
  
   (1900–1976), American horse trainer
• James M. Ryan
  James M. Ryan
  James Ryan businessman, oldest of seven sons and two daughters of Mary Ellen Fleming and Michael Ryan was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland, Canada....
  
   (1842–1917), businessman from Newfoundland
• James Hugh Ryan
  James Hugh Ryan
  James Hugh Ryan was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic University of America and Archbishop of Omaha .-Biography:...
  
   (1886–1948), U.S. archbishop
• James Ryan (bishop)
  James Ryan (bishop)
  James Ryan was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Alton from 1888 until his death in 1923.-Biography:...
  
   (1848–1923), U.S. bishop
• James Francis Ryan, fictional title character played by Matt Damon in the war film Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....
  
  

See also

• Jim Ryan (disambiguation)
• Jimmy Ryan (disambiguation)
• Jim Ryun
  Jim Ryun
  James Ronald Ryun is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda...
  
  (born 1947), American former track athlete and politician