He's best known for guiding the Fijian Sevens team to Olympic gold in Rio three years ago, beating Team GB in the final.
He also joined the Welsh Rugby Union in January 2017 for a spell as a consultant and was linked with a role in Warren Gatland's Lions management team for New Zealand that summer.
And it seems you just cannot keep Ben Ryan out of the headlines, even if it's fake news.
Because the 47-year-old has become the innocent victim of a third fake news story and went on to social media posting a brilliant response to the culprits.
Having already been killed and wrongly being accused of getting himself arrested with two kilograms of cocaine at Heathrow Airport, a news story emerged on social media overnight claiming Ryan had died after being knocked down by a Honda Civic car in front of a Toronto shopping mall.
Ryan himself then went on to Twitter with a great comeback to the fake news posters to declare he's very much alive.
"Second time I’ve died via a fake news story," he wrote.
"At least it isn’t the drug trafficking arrest the last one talked about.
"I’m nowhere Toronto though hear it’s a great spot, as long as you aren’t around the out of control Honda Civics."
Ryan is not the only Fijian Sevens coach to be a victim of sick fake news stories.
Former Dragons, Pontypridd and Cardiff scrum-half Gareth Baber had to shut down claims in December, 2017, he had been one of two people to die in a crash on New Zealand’s South Island.
The currently head coach with Fiji's Sevens side, told WalesOnline at the time: “It isn’t very nice at all to read that you have died.
“It’s pretty upsetting to be honest. It’s just horrible. It is mind boggling why someone would do this. I don’t understand it.
“When you are away from family and travelling the world, you don’t want people to hear that kind of thing. If a member of your family were to see it, it would be a terrible shock.
“I contacted my mum and the rest of my family to let them know I was fine."
Recently-retired England flanker James Haskell was also targeted with a fake news slur in December, 2016, when he was been forced to deny rumours he died of a drug overdose
Haskell posted a video after sick stories circulated that he had been killed by a steroid binge.
