Allan A. Ryan Jr. was born on July 3, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Nancy Foote. He died on January 26, 2023 in Norwell, Massachusetts, USA.
He received a bachelor's degree in government from Dartmouth College, and graduated from the University of Minnesota law school.
Former head of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, a group designated to find and expel anyone in the United States who had assisted Nazis.