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John W. "Jack" Ryan, or Jack Ryan (12 December, 1926 – 13 August, 1991), the designer, is noted for two brushes with fame:

as the redesigner of the Barbie
doll
and, briefly, as the sixth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor
.

Career

Ryan graduated from Yale University, worked for Raytheon as an engineer, and then moved to Mattel where he worked in research and development.

According to a , Jack Ryan worked at the Pentagon as an engineer designing Sparrow and Hawk missiles. Mattel hired him for his "space-aged savvy" and knowledge of materials.

Mental Floss' informs us that Ryan was a Yale graduate who worked as an engineer at military equipment manufacturer Raytheon before "money lured him away to head Mattel's department of research and development".

(As Raytheon and not the Pentagon directly developed the missiles, one can assume that Ryan worked at Raytheon and not the Pentagon, but it is unclear if Ryan worked at the Pentagon also.)

A book review of Forever Barbie, ISBN 0380720493 , states that Jack Ryan was a, “Yale-educated electrical engineer at Mattel who was a whiz at designing toys.“ and refers to Ryan being at Mattel in July 1957.

At Mattel, Ryan also designed the Chatty Cathy dolls. Ryan worked at Mattel for 20 years. A photograph of Ryan is at the bottom of this .

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