Person

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A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

Parent types

Thing

Properties

Properties for Person

Property	Expected type	Defined on	Description
additionalName	Text	Person	An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
address	PostalAddress, Text	Person	Physical address of the item.
affiliation	Organization	Person	An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
agentInteractionStatistic	InteractionCounter	Person	The number of completed interactions for this entity, in a particular role (the 'agent'), in a particular action (indicated in the statistic), and in a particular context (i.e. interactionService).
alumniOf	EducationalOrganization, Organization	Person	An organization that the person is an alumni of.
award	Text	Person	An award won by or for this item.
awards	Text	Person	Awards won by or for this item.
birthDate	Date	Person	Date of birth.
birthPlace	Place	Person	The place where the person was born.
brand	Brand, Organization	Person	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
callSign	Text	Person	A callsign, as used in broadcasting and radio communications to identify people, radio and TV stations, or vehicles.
children	Person	Person	A child of the person.
colleague	Person, URL	Person	A colleague of the person.
colleagues	Person	Person	A colleague of the person.
contactPoint	ContactPoint	Person	A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPoints	ContactPoint	Person	A contact point for a person or organization.
deathDate	Date	Person	Date of death.
deathPlace	Place	Person	The place where the person died.
duns	Text	Person	The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
email	Text	Person	Email address.
familyName	Text	Person	Family name. In the U.S., the last name of a Person.
faxNumber	Text	Person	The fax number.
follows	Person	Person	The most generic uni-directional social relation.
funder	Organization, Person	Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
funding	Grant	Person	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
gender	GenderType, Text	Person	Gender of something, typically a Person, but possibly also fictional characters, animals, etc. While and may be used, text strings are also acceptable for people who are not a binary gender. The gender property can also be used in an extended sense to cover e.g. the gender of sports teams. As with the gender of individuals, we do not try to enumerate all possibilities. A mixed-gender SportsTeam can be indicated with a text value of "Mixed".
givenName	Text	Person	Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person.
globalLocationNumber	Text	Person	The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations.
hasCertification	Certification	Person	Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person.
hasCredential	Credential	Person	A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
hasOccupation	Occupation	Person	The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates.
hasOfferCatalog	OfferCatalog	Person	Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS	Place	Person	Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
height	Distance, QuantitativeValue	Person	The height of the item.
homeLocation	ContactPoint, Place	Person	A contact location for a person's residence.
honorificPrefix	Text	Person	An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr.
honorificSuffix	Text	Person	An honorific suffix following a Person's name such as M.D./PhD/MSCSW.
interactionStatistic	InteractionCounter	Person	The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used.
isicV4	Text	Person	The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
jobTitle	DefinedTerm, Text	Person	The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager).
knows	Person	Person	The most generic bi-directional social/work relation.
knowsAbout	Text, Thing, URL	Person	Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions.
knowsLanguage	Language, Text	Person	Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard.
lifeEvent	Event	Person	A life event like baptism, communions, Bar Mitzvahs, Aqiqah, Namakarana, Miyamairi, burial, ....
makesOffer	Offer	Person	A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
memberOf	MemberProgramTier, Organization, ProgramMembership	Person	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
naics	Text	Person	The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
nationality	Country	Person	Nationality of the person.
netWorth	MonetaryAmount, PriceSpecification	Person	The total financial value of the person as calculated by subtracting the total value of liabilities from the total value of assets.
owns	Thing	Person	Things owned by the organization or person.
parent	Person	Person	A parent of this person.
parents	Person	Person	A parents of the person.
performerIn	Event	Person	Event that this person is a performer or participant in.
pronouns	DefinedTerm, StructuredValue, Text	Person	A short string listing or describing pronouns for a person. Typically the person concerned is the best authority as pronouns are a critical part of personal identity and expression. Publishers and consumers of this information are reminded to treat this data responsibly, take country-specific laws related to gender expression into account, and be wary of out-of-date data and drawing unwarranted inferences about the person being described. In English, formulations such as "they/them", "she/her", and "he/him" are commonly used online and can also be used here. We do not intend to enumerate all possible micro-syntaxes in all languages. More structured and well-defined external values for pronouns can be referenced using the StructuredValue or DefinedTerm values.
publishingPrinciples	CreativeWork, URL	Person	The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual, e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork. While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology.
relatedTo	Person	Person	The most generic familial relation.
seeks	Demand	Person	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
sibling	Person	Person	A sibling of the person.
siblings	Person	Person	A sibling of the person.
skills	DefinedTerm, Text	Person	A statement of knowledge, skill, ability, task or any other assertion expressing a competency that is either claimed by a person, an organization or desired or required to fulfill a role or to work in an occupation.
sponsor	Organization, Person	Person	A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
spouse	Person	Person	The person's spouse.
taxID	Text	Person	The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain.
telephone	Text	Person	The telephone number.
vatID	Text	Person	The value-added Tax ID of the organization or person with national prefix (for example IT123456789). Can also be described as iso6523Code with proper prefix.
weight	Mass, QuantitativeValue	Person	The weight of the product or person.
workLocation	ContactPoint, Place	Person	A contact location for a person's place of work.
worksFor	Organization	Person	Organizations that the person works for.

Inherited properties

Property	Expected type	Inherited from	Description
additionalType	Text, URL	Thing	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName	Text	Thing	An alias for the item.
description	Text, TextObject	Thing	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	Thing	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier	PropertyValue, Text, URL	Thing	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image	ImageObject, URL	Thing	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork, URL	Thing	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name	Text	Thing	The name of the item.
owner	Organization, Person	Thing	A person or organization who owns this Thing.
potentialAction	Action	Thing	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	Thing	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf	CreativeWork, Event	Thing	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	Thing	URL of the item.

Sub-types

Patient

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Example Name",
  "description": "A short description.",
  "url": "/example",
  "additionalName": "Example value",
  "address": "Example value"
}