Ryan (given name) in 2005–2007. "Ryan" as a male given name has persisted in popularity for the thirty-year period of 1976–2006 in the 10th to 20th rank; the name appeared in the top thousand for the first time in 1946 and gained steadily in popularity until leveling off in the 1970s. Its ascendency in the U.S. has been traced, in part, to its use by American actor Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal who used the stage name Ryan O'Neal in the popular series "Peyton Place" from 1964 to 1969. "Ryan" gained popularity as a given name for girls in the 1970s. It first appeared
Neal Rubin lived in Michigan since 1984. He has been the author of the Gill Thorp comic strip since 2004, and is the third author in the strip's 50+-year history. Rubin appears as himself in the 2007 Elmore Leonard novel "Up in Honey's Room." He had a small speaking role (credited as Neal Anthony Rubin) as a reporter in the 2011 movie "The Ides of March", starring George Clooney and Ryan Gosling. He lives with his wife and two sons in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Neal Rubin Neal Rubin (born 1955) is an American cartoonist and writer. He is currently a columnist for