"Mean" Gene Okerlund is a professional wrestling interviewer and announcer.

Okerlund got his start in the AWA in the early 1970s when he filled in for an announcer. He would stay with the AWA until 1984, when he was one of many AWA personel to join the expanding WWF. He would stay with the WWF for nine years, as he was their top interviewer, and was host of such WWF shows as All American Wrestling. In 1993, he left the WWF, and would become an interviewer for WCW. He would stay with WCW until it was sold in 2001 to the WWF.

Okerlund would then re-join the WWF (renamed WWE in 2002), as his first post-WCW assignment for the company was as a commentator for the Gimmick Battle Royal during WrestleMania X-Seven. He would go on to host WWE Confidential in 2002, and was there during its entire two-year run. In 2004, he received a kidney transplant, and recovered fully from the operation. As of 2005, he still makes occasional apperances for WWE.

Profile:
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 213 lbs.
Hometown: Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Professional Debut: 1974

Trivia:
He was given the nickname "Mean Gene" from good friend Jesse Ventura.
He sang the Star Spangled Banner at the first WrestleMania.