Peter John Ryan OAM FRCS FRACS (25 November 1925 – 3 June 2002) was a consultant surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
Ryan was born in Dookie, Victoria in 1925, and attended Assumption College, Kilmore.
He also worked as an honorary consultant surgeon one morning per month for almost 20 years from 1981 at the VAHS (Victorian Aboriginal Health Service).
He was a founding member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Road Trauma Committee,[3] which was partially responsible for the introduction of compulsory seat belts in cars in Victoria in 1970, the first state in the world to pass such a law (Seat belt legislation).
[1] In 1996 the Peter Ryan Prize for Surgical Research for final year St Vincent's medical students was established in his honour.