Personalities At WJR
- Past morning host J.P. McCarthy
- Current morning host Paul W. Smith
- Former sports director and announcer Van Patrick
- Former Detroit Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell (when WJR was the Tigers' flagship station).
- Former Detroit Red Wings announcer Bruce Martyn
- Former Detroit Lions announcer Bob Reynolds
- Musicologist Karl Haas, the Austrian-born host of the classical music magazine Adventures in Good Music (later originating from Cleveland station WCLV)
- Mike Whorf, the host of the music magazine Kaleidoscope, which focused on various music genres, themes, and eras
- Ted Strasser, host of the adult standards program Patterns in Music
- Jay Roberts, host of the overnight music program Night Flight 760
- Current midday talk show host Frank Beckmann (also currently the play-by-play voice for University of Michigan football, which originates from WWJ. WJR was the longtime flagship station for Michigan football from 1976-2005. Beckmann has been the play-by-play man there since the 1980s, and formerly called Lions and Tigers games for the station.)
- Novelist and Detroit Free Press sports writer Mitch Albom. WJR was the flagship station when The Mitch Albom Show (formerly Albom in the Afternoon) was nationally syndicated.
- Assistant News Director and News Anchor Lloyd Jackson Sr., host of The Big Story
- Roman Catholic Priest Father Coughlin
- Leading Detroit Traffic Reporters Joel Alexander, Lorna Stephens, Peggy Hodge and Tony Bruscato
- Tonight Show host Jack Paar
- Actress-singer Grace Lee Whitney, later "Janice Rand" on Star Trek.
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