- Vince McMahon
Vincent Kennedy McMahon (born August 24, 1945), better known as Vince McMahon or Mr. McMahon, is an American wrestling promoter, wrestler, and film producer. He is the Chairman of the WWE Board of Directors and majority shareholder of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE).
- Jim Ross
James William Ross (born January 3 1950) is a professional wrestling announcer and executive currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its "RAW" brand as their play-by-play commentator. To many peers, Ross is considered to be one of the best wrestling announcers in history and has been called the voice of World Wrestling Entertainment. He is better known as Good Ol JR or simply JR to his fans.
- Paul Heyman
Paul Heyman (born September 11, 1965) is a professional wrestling manager, on-air talent, and former promoter currently employed by World Wrestling Entertainment. He is best known for being the creative force behind Extreme Championship Wrestling's rise to prominence in the 1990s, and shortly thereafter he became a personality in World Wrestling Entertainment. He has also worked with WWE's ECW brand where he was recognized as the ECW Representative.
- Jim Cornette
James ("Jim") Cornette (born September 17, 1961) is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker. Cornette is the former "Commissioner" of Ring of Honor and current "Management Director" of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- Joey Styles
Joey Styles (born Joseph Carmine Bonsignore on July 14, 1971), is a professional wrestling play-by-play commentator and former professional in the field of advertising sales best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling ('90s promotion until bankruptcy in 2001). He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its "ECW" brand as the play-by-play commentator.
- Jeremy Borash
Jeremy Borash (born May 28, 1977 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional wrestling play-by-play commentator, announcer, booker, video producer and website designer. He was heavily involved in the now defunct World Wrestling All-Stars promotion, and has been an influential staff member of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling since its inception in 2002. He is currently a member of the TNA creative team.
- Dave Meltzer
David Allen Meltzer (born October 24, 1961) is the editor of the "Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON)", a newsletter for the world of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. "WON" had grown from an underground publication to one that now commonly circulates around the industry and its fans.. It is known for revealing events inside the business by breaking kayfabe.
- Vince Russo
Vincent Michael Russo (born January 24, 1961) is an American writer, known for working for American professional wrestling companies, most notably the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He is currently working as a writer for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- Jimmy Hart
"The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart (also known as "The Colonel") (born January 1, 1944) is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer and musician. He has worked in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), Memphis Wrestling, the WWF, USWA, WCW, XWF, WrestleXpress and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He has managed many notable professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Ric Flair and The Honky Tonk Man.
- Theodore Long
Theodore Robert Long (born September 15, 1955), better known as Teddy Long, is a former professional wrestling referee and manager, and is currently working on World Wrestling Entertainment's "SmackDown!" brand as its General Manager.
- Mike Tenay
Mike Tenay (born February 28, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer. He is best known for his time working with World Championship Wrestling, but currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- Jim Crockett
James Allen Crockett (1909-1973) was a professional wrestling promoter sometimes known as Jim Crockett, Sr. or to people within the business simply as "Big Jim".
- Don West
Donald "Don" West (born June 20, 1963) is an American professional wrestling color commentator and television personality. In the late 1990s, West achieved a degree of fame for his loud, energetic, abrasive sales pitches on late night television, with his persuasive style turning him into a minor pop culture figure. Since 2002, West has worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, …
- James Mitchell
James (Jim) Mitchell (born February 26, 1965 in Orlando, Florida) is an American professional wrestling manager, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as James Vandenberg and with Extreme Championship Wrestling as The Sinister Minister. He is currently working under his own name for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is the former manager of Abyss.
- Miss Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Hulette, known best as Miss Elizabeth, was a U.S. professional wrestling manager. She gained international fame during the late-1980s and early-1990s in the World Wrestling Federation, and the mid-1990s in World Championship Wrestling in her role as the ever-demure and graceful counterpart to the wild and brash pro wrestling character "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Hulette was originally from Frankfort, Kentucky.
- Gene Okerlund
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund (born November 29, 1938 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota), is a former American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. A graduate of West Virginia University, Okerlund got his start at an AM talk radio station KOIL-AM 1280 in Omaha, Nebraska as a DJ. He segued out of radio into a position at the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the early 1970s when he occasionally filled in for ailing ring announcer and interviewer Marty O'Neill, …
- Earl Hebner
Earl W. Hebner is a professional wrestling referee currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is perhaps best known from his time as the senior referee for the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment and later on in the same role on their "RAW" brand from 2002-2005. As Senior Referee, Hebner officiated most main events, including the infamous "Montréal Screwjob" during the main event of the 1997 "Survivor Series".
- Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter (born 1964 or 1965) is an American businesswoman, currently serving as president of the limited liability company TNA Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, TNA Entertainment produces professional wrestling television programs, live events, pay-per-views and associated merchandise such as video games.
- Gordon Solie
Gordon Solie, real name Francis Jonard Labiak (January 26, 1929 - July 27, 2000), was a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for World Championship Wrestling. Solie was also the regular announcer for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, and Continental Championship Wrestling among others.
- Nancy Benoit
Nancy Elizabeth Benoit (born Nancy Toffoloni; May 21 1964 - June 22 2007) (more commonly known by her in-ring names as Woman and Fallen Angel) was a professional wrestling valet and manager. She worked in several promotions, including Jim Crockett Promotions, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. On June 25, 2007, Nancy and her son Daniel were found dead by police in their Fayetteville, …
- Mark Coleman
Mark "The Hammer" Coleman (born December 20, 1964) is an American mixed martial arts fighter and former olympic amateur wrestler. Coleman is credited with proving the ability of wrestlers in the developing sport of mixed martial arts, and with being the first to exhibit the strategy that came to be known as "ground and pound". Coleman began his career freestyle wrestling, going on to win a NCAA wrestling championship, and competing in the 1992 Summer Olympics, …
- Dave Scherer
Dave Scherer is the owner and head writer of the professional wrestling website PW Insider. Scherer started his site after having worked at 1wrestling.com, owned by Bob Ryder and Joey Styles.
- Tony Schiavone
Noah Anthony Schiavone, better known as Tony Schiavone (born November 7, 1964 in Craigsville, Virginia) is a professional wrestling announcer and sports talk show host.
- Howard Finkel
Howard Finkel (born June 7, 1950) is a professional wrestling ring announcer. Hired in 1975 by Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation, "The Fink" was one of the first people brought in to the Vince McMahon's nascent World Wrestling Federation and is widely credited as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s first and longest lasting employee.
- Bill Apter
Bill Apter is a journalist specializing in professional wrestling and best known for the kayfabe or so-called "mark" magazines he edited and photographed the mathces from the 1970s and currently still does that at times. The magazine he became most prominently known for was Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
- Mauro Ranallo
Mauro Ranallo (born December 21, 1969) is a Canadian sports announcer, with experience in football, hockey, professional wrestling, and mixed martial arts events. He is best known for his work as a play-by-play announcer for PRIDE FC and, more recently, Showtime for Elite XC broadcasts. He began announcing when he was 16 years old. Since September 2006, he has been the lead news anchor and play-by-play announcer for the Canadian combat sports channel The Fight Network.
- Wade Keller
Wade Keller is a wrestling columnist. He runs the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter, widely regarded as one of the most influential newsletters in professional wrestling, along with Dave Meltzer's "Wrestling Observer" newsletter and Bryan Alvarez's "Figure Four Weekly". Keller founded Pro Wrestling Torch (a/k/a PWTorch, or simply "The Torch") in October 1987, when he was a junior in high school.
- Sam Muchnick
Sam Muchnick (August 22,1905 - December 30, 1998) was an American professional wrestling promoter from St. Louis, Missouri. He was instrumental in formation of the National Wrestling Alliance in 1948. Muchnick served as the NWA's president from 1950 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1975. He operated the St. Louis Wrestling Club, one of the primary members of the NWA based in St. Louis, Missouri. Born in 1905 in the Ukraine to a Jewish family, …
- Layla El
Layla El (born June 25, 1978) is an English professional wrestling diva of North African heritage, currently residing in the United States. She is employed by World Wrestling Entertainment, and appears on the ECW brand. Before joining WWE in 2006, Layla El was a dancer for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association, and has also danced for Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards
- Leticia Cline
Leticia Ann Cline (born October 1, 1978) is an American model. She is currently employed as an interviewer by the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- Vincent J. McMahon
Vincent James McMahon, better known as Vince McMahon, Sr. was a U.S. professional wrestling promoter. His father Roderick James "Jess" McMahon was a successful boxing and concert promoter who had worked with legendary Madison Square Garden promoter Tex Rickard and his mother Diane Banks was a designer from England. He saw the tremendous potential for growth that the pro-wrestling industry had in the era following World War II, …
- Oliver Humperdink
Oliver Humperdink was a professional wrestling manager who worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, Florida Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation.
- Dave Prazak
In the past he has managed notable wrestlers such as Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson, Tracy Smothers, Don Muraco, Buddy Landel, Sherri Martel, Steve Corino, Samoa Joe, CM Punk, and others. He has also done commentary on home releases for such promotions as Ring of Honor, CHIKARA, and IWA Mid-South. He also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2003 to 2004. Along with being manager and commentator, Prazak also is the promoter for the women's wrestling promotion, …
- Bill Alfonso
William Matthew Alfonso (born August 11, 1957 in Tampa, Florida) better known as Bill Alfonso is a former professional wrestling referee and professional wrestling manager. He has worked for the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Jim Crockett Promotions, and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). He achieved his greatest success in ECW in the mid to late 1990s.
- Scott Keith
Scott Keith (born August 30, 1974, in Smithers, British Columbia) is a Canadian author and columnist who gained a degree of fame in the online community for his critical reports of various professional wrestling events. In 1996 Keith began writing his reviews on wrestling message boards. His reviews, known as "Netcop Rants" and, later,"Smark Rants", are aimed mainly at self-described "smarks". Over a period of nine years, Keith reviewed a wide variety of wrestling shows, …
- Tim White
Timothy Rhys White was a former professional wrestling referee. He worked with World Wrestling Entertainment as a Producer on the SmackDown! Brand. During the 1980s and 1990s, White worked as André the Giant's assistant in addition to his referee duties.
- Michael Buffer
Michael Buffer (born November 2, 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professional ring announcer for boxing and professional wrestling matches. With his tuxedo and famous catchphrase "Let's get ready to rumble!", the six-foot tall Philadelphia native has become one of the most recognized faces in the world of sports entertainment thanks to his 20 plus years of announcing many of the biggest championship boxing events.
- Phil Mushnick
Phil Mushnick is a sportswriter who writes a sports media column for the "New York Post". Mushnick's articles criticize the world of sports as portrayed in the media. Frequently criticized subjects include sexuality/obscenity in sports broadcasting, steroid abuse in professional wrestling, and the general lack of moral behavior permeating the world of sports.
- Barbie Blank
Barbara Jean "Barbie" Blank (born January 15 1987) better known by her ring name Kelly Kelly is an American model and professional wrestling valet, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its "ECW" brand.
- Nick Gulas
Nick Gulas was a professional wrestling promoter in the Southern United States. Also known as The King of Managers and King B, Gulas started the careers of wrestling stars such as Tojo Yamamoto, Jackie Fargo and Jerry "The King" Lawler in the 1960s and '70s, the Bounty Hunters with Jimmy Kent and the Interns with Dr. Ken Ramey in the 1970s and '80s. Gulas launched the career of current manager of the stars, …