Name	Ryan Clark
Height	5 ft 11 in
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	12-October-1979
Place of Birth	Marrero, Louisiana, U.S.
Famous for	Footballer

Ryan Clark is an American football safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Louisiana State University (LSU), and was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2002. Clark has also played for the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

On January 25, 2012, he was named to his first career Pro Bowl, replacing the injured Ed Reed.[3] [4] He also appeared as one of the players for the fictional Gotham Rogues team in The Dark Knight Rises. He signed with the Steelers as a free agent on March 15, 2006 replacing former safety Chris Hope who signed with the Tennessee Titans. In 2006, Clark made 72 tackles playing free safety for the Steelers, along with one interception and three fumble recoveries. He played 13 games and started 12 of them, missing the final three with a groin injury. During training camp before the 2007 season, he remained starter despite playing a position battle with second year player Anthony Smith. During a 2007 game against the Denver Broncos at Invesco Field at Mile High, Clark developed severe pain in his left side and had to be rushed to the hospital. It turned out that Clark had suffered a splenal infarction due to the sickle cell trait from which he has suffered since he was a child; these are usually a risk at high altitudes.

Clark had to have his spleen and gall bladder removed, ending his season. He lost 30 pounds after the removal, but returned to the Steelers in 2008. Although Clark has been medically cleared to play in Denver's thin air without any complications, the Steelers have deactivated him for the four games they have played in Denver since then—a 2009 Monday Night game, a 2010 preseason game, a 2011 playoff game and the 2012 season opener—out of an abundance of caution.

Clark was active in the community while with the Giants, participating in the 2002 United Way Hometown Huddle by conducting a football clinic at the Highbridge Center for members of Alianza Dominicana, a local United Way agency that services families in Washington Heights. He joined forces with students from the Leadership In Public Services High School located at Ground Zero for "Operation PaintFest." Sponsored by the Foundation for Hospital Art, the participants created paintings of hope that would later be donated to the five New York hospitals involved in the September 11th tragedies.