Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime columnist for the Boston Globe and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. He has been described as a basketball guru and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the Globe on the same day as Peter Gammons. SportsFanMag.com article He is well known for his stuttering voice and has said of it "I don't like my own voice – in fact I hate it." sportsmediaguide.com interview

Bob Ryan is a meteorologist, currently forecasting for WRC-TV. He has served as the station's chief meteorologist since 1980, and was previously the Today Show's first on-air meteorologist. Essentially, he and Willard Scott exchanged jobs, with Scott replacing him on Today and Ryan taking over the meterologist's chair on WRC.

Ryan is a Past President of the American Meteorological Society http://www.ametsoc.org/ He wrote and published an annual meteorology almanac for 25 years that details weather events of the past year. It also contains information such as average highs and lows for each day of the year and significant weather events that happened on that date in history.