List of former All Elite Wrestling personnel

All Elite Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion and entertainment company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Former employees in AEW consist of professional wrestlers, managers, valets, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, script writers, executives, and members of the board of directors.

They primarily appeared on AEW television programming, pay-per-views, and live events. When talent is released of their contract, it could due to retirement, personal reasons, time off, budget cuts, the individual may have asked for their release or their contract was not renewed. In one case, a talent has died while they were contracted, such as Mr. Brodie Lee.

Those who made appearances without a contract and those who were previously released but are currently employed by AEW are not included.

Personnel

 
CM Punk
 
Cody Rhodes
 
Jade Cargill
 
William Regal
Indicates the person died while contracted with AEW
Real name Ring name(s) Tenure Ref
Manuel Andrade Oropeza Andrade El Idolo 2021–2023 [1]
Ronnie Arneill Shawn Spears 2019–2023 [2]
Angela Arnold AQA 2022 [3]
Alexandra Barrulas Shanna 2019–2021 [4]
Leva Bates Leva Bates 2019–2023 [5]
Vickie Benson Vickie Guerrero 2020–2023 [6]
Tully Blanchard Tully Blanchard 2019–2022 [7]
Parker Boudreaux Parker Boudreaux 2022–2024 [8]
Phillip Brooks CM Punk 2021–2023 [9]
Matthew Burns Nick Mondo 2019–2020 [10]
Jade Cargill Jade Cargill 2020–2023 [11]
Zack Carpinello Zack Clayton 2022–2023 [12]
Laura Dennis Allie
The Bunny
2019–2023 [13]
Marc Dionne Stu Grayson 2019–2022
2023–2024
[8]
Robert Fish Bobby Fish 2021–2022 [14]
Kevin Foote Kevin Kelly 2023–2024 [15]
José García José the Assistant 2021–2024 [8]
Frank Gerdelman Frankie Kazarian 2019–2023 [16]
Sadie Gibbs Sadie Gibbs 2019–2020 [17]
Granden Goetzman Trench 2022–2023 [18]
Melanie Goranson Mel 2019–2021 [19]
Salvador Guerrero IV Chavo Guerrero Jr. 2021–2022 [20]
Christopher Guy Ace Steel 2022, 2023 [21]
Donald Hager Jr. Jake Hager 2019–2024 [22]
Jeff Hardy Jeff Hardy 2022–2024 [23]
Matt Hardy Matt Hardy 2020–2024 [24]
Mark Henry Mark Henry 2021–2024 [25]
Jonathan Huber Mr. Brodie Lee 2020 [26]
Aerial Hull Big Swole 2019–2021 [27]
Joseph Janela Joey Janela 2019–2022 [28][29]
Dasha Kuret Dasha Gonzalez 2019–2024 [8]
Brock Lunde Brock Anderson 2021–2023 [30]
Martin Lunde Arn Anderson 2019–2024 [31]
Darren Matthews William Regal 2022 [32]
James McAhren Jimmy Havoc 2019–2020 [17]
Alex Mendez Goldenboy 2019–2020 [citation needed]
Julian Micevski Ethan Page 2021–2024 [33]
Jack Miller Jack Evans 2019–2022 [34]
Noah Nelms Marko Stunt 2019–2022 [35]
Nobuhiko Oshima Cima 2019–2020 [citation needed]
CJ Perry CJ 2023–2024 [36]
Brian Pillman Brian Pillman Jr. 2020–2023 [37]
Beatrice Priestley Bea Priestley 2019–2020 [17]
Brandi Runnels Brandi Rhodes 2019–2022 [38]
Cody Runnels Cody
Cody Rhodes
Fuego 2
2019–2022 [38]
Mark Sanchez Mike Santana
Santana
2019–2024 [39]
Brianna Sparrey Kylie Rae 2019 [40]
Jennifer Sterger Jennifer Decker 2019–2020 [41][unreliable source?]
Kia Stevens Awesome Kong 2019–2021 [42]
Brandon Tate Brandon
Boy #2
2021–2024 [8]
Brent Tate Brent
Boy #1
2021–2024 [8]
Trey Tucker Alan Angels 2020–2022 [43]
Willie Urbina Willie Urbina 2019–2021 [44]
Paige VanZant Paige VanZant 2021–2022 [45]
Ivelisse Vélez Ivelisse 2019
2020–2021
[46]
Benjamin Whitmer BJ Whitmer 2019–2023 [47]
Unknown Fuego Del Sol 2021–2023 [48]
Unknown Gravity 2023–2024 [8]
Unknown Sonny Kiss 2019–2023 [49]

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