Person

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

Subclass of: Thing

Properties from Person

Property	Expected Type	Description
additionalName	Text	An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
address	Text, PostalAddress	Physical address of the item.
affiliation	Organization	An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
agentInteractionStatistic	InteractionCounter	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	An organization that the person is an alumni of.
award	Text	An award won by or for this item.
awards	Text	Awards won by or for this item.
birthDate	Date	Date of birth.
birthPlace	Place	The place where the person was born.
brand	Brand, Organization	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
callSign	Text	A callsign, as used in broadcasting and radio communications to identify people, radio and TV stations, or vehicles.
children	Person	A child of the person.
colleague	Person, URL	A colleague of the person.
colleagues	Person	A colleague of the person.
contactPoint	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPoints	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
deathDate	Date	Date of death.
deathPlace	Place	The place where the person died.
duns	Text	The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
email	Text	Email address.
familyName	Text	Family name. In the U.S., the last name of a Person.
faxNumber	Text	The fax number.
follows	Person	The most generic uni-directional social relation.
funder	Organization, Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
funding	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
gender	GenderType, Text	Gender of something, typically a Person, but possibly also fictional characters, animals, etc. While https://schema.org/Male and https://schema.org/Female 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	Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person.
globalLocationNumber	Text	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	Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person.
hasCredential	EducationalOccupationalCredential	A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
hasOccupation	Occupation	The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates.
hasOfferCatalog	OfferCatalog	Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS	Place	Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
height	Distance, QuantitativeValue	The height of the item.
homeLocation	ContactPoint, Place	A contact location for a person's residence.
honorificPrefix	Text	An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr.
honorificSuffix	Text	An honorific suffix following a Person's name such as M.D./PhD/MSCSW.
interactionStatistic	InteractionCounter	The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used.
isicV4	Text	The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
jobTitle	Text, DefinedTerm	The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager).
knows	Person	The most generic bi-directional social/work relation.
knowsAbout	URL, Text, Thing	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	Text, Language	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.
makesOffer	Offer	A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
memberOf	ProgramMembership, MemberProgramTier, Organization	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
naics	Text	The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
nationality	Country	Nationality of the person.
netWorth	PriceSpecification, MonetaryAmount	The total financial value of the person as calculated by subtracting the total value of liabilities from the total value of assets.
owns	Product, OwnershipInfo	Products owned by the organization or person.
parent	Person	A parent of this person.
parents	Person	A parents of the person.
performerIn	Event	Event that this person is a performer or participant in.
pronouns	StructuredValue, Text, DefinedTerm	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	URL, CreativeWork	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	The most generic familial relation.
seeks	Demand	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
sibling	Person	A sibling of the person.
siblings	Person	A sibling of the person.
skills	DefinedTerm, Text	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	Person, Organization	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	The person's spouse.
taxID	Text	The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain.
telephone	Text	The telephone number.
vatID	Text	The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person.
weight	Mass, QuantitativeValue	The weight of the product or person.
workLocation	ContactPoint, Place	A contact location for a person's place of work.
worksFor	Organization	Organizations that the person works for.

Properties from Thing

Property	Expected Type	Description
additionalType	Text, URL	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	An alias for the item.
description	TextObject, Text	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	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, URL, Text	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	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage	URL, CreativeWork	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name	Text	The name of the item.
potentialAction	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	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	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of Person may appear as a value for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
accountablePerson	CreativeWork	Specifies the Person that is legally accountable for the CreativeWork.
acquiredFrom	OwnershipInfo	The organization or person from which the product was acquired.
actor	Event, Clip, VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, VideoObject, CreativeWorkSeason, MovieSeries, Movie, TVSeries, VideoGame, PodcastSeries	An actor (individual or a group), e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc., or in an event. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip.
actors	Clip, VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, VideoObject, MovieSeries, TVSeries, VideoGame, Movie	An actor, e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip.
agent	Action	The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. John wrote a book.
athlete	SportsTeam	A person that acts as performing member of a sports team; a player as opposed to a coach.
attendees	Event	A person attending the event.
author	CreativeWork, Rating	The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
awayTeam	SportsEvent	The away team in a sports event.
bccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient blind copied on a message.
bookingAgent	Reservation	'bookingAgent' is an out-dated term indicating a 'broker' that serves as a booking agent.
borrower	LendAction	A sub property of participant. The person that borrows the object being lent.
broker	Order, Reservation, Invoice, Service	An entity that arranges for an exchange between a buyer and a seller. In most cases a broker never acquires or releases ownership of a product or service involved in an exchange. If it is not clear whether an entity is a broker, seller, or buyer, the latter two terms are preferred.
buyer	SellAction	A sub property of participant. The participant/person/organization that bought the object.
byArtist	MusicRecording, MusicAlbum	The artist that performed this album or recording.
candidate	VoteAction	A sub property of object. The candidate subject of this action.
ccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient copied on a message.
character	CreativeWork	Fictional person connected with a creative work.
children	Person	A child of the person.
claimInterpreter	Claim	For a Claim interpreted from MediaObject content, the interpretedAsClaim property can be used to indicate a claim contained, implied or refined from the content of a MediaObject.
colleagues	Person	A colleague of the person.
colorist	VisualArtwork, ComicStory, ComicIssue	The individual who adds color to inked drawings.
competitor	SportsEvent	A competitor in a sports event.
composer	Event, MusicComposition	The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
copyrightHolder	CreativeWork	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
creator	CreativeWork, UserComments	The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
creditedTo	MusicRelease	The group the release is credited to if different than the byArtist. For example, Red and Blue is credited to "Stefani Germanotta Band", but by Lady Gaga.
customer	Invoice, Order	Party placing the order or paying the invoice.
director	Event, Clip, VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, VideoObject, CreativeWorkSeason, MovieSeries, Movie, TVSeries, VideoGame	A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video gaming etc. content, or of an event. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip.
directors	VideoGame, Clip, VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, VideoObject, TVSeries, MovieSeries, Movie	A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video games etc. content. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip.
editor	CreativeWork	Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork.
employee	Organization	Someone working for this organization.
employees	Organization	People working for this organization.
endorsee	EndorseAction	A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported.
endorsers	Diet	People or organizations that endorse the plan.
followee	FollowAction	A sub property of object. The person or organization being followed.
follows	Person	The most generic uni-directional social relation.
founder	Organization	A person or organization who founded this organization.
founders	Organization	A person who founded this organization.
fundedItem	Grant	Indicates something directly or indirectly funded or sponsored through a Grant. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
funder	CreativeWork, Grant, MonetaryGrant, Organization, Event, Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
grantee	DigitalDocumentPermission	The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.
hiringOrganization	JobPosting	Organization or Person offering the job position.
homeTeam	SportsEvent	The home team in a sports event.
illustrator	Book	The illustrator of the book.
inker	ComicStory, ComicIssue, VisualArtwork	The individual who traces over the pencil drawings in ink after pencils are complete.
knows	Person	The most generic bi-directional social/work relation.
landlord	RentAction	A sub property of participant. The owner of the real estate property.
legalRepresentative	Organization	One or multiple persons who represent this organization legally such as CEO or sole administrator.
legislationCountersignedBy	Legislation	The person or organization that countersigned the legislation. Depending on the legal context, a countersignature can indicate that the signed authority undertakes to assume responsibility for texts emanating from a person who is inviolable and irresponsible, (for example a King, Grand Duc or President), or that the authority is in charge of the implementation of the text.
legislationPassedBy	Legislation	The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author.
lender	BorrowAction	A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed.
letterer	VisualArtwork, ComicStory, ComicIssue	The individual who adds lettering, including speech balloons and sound effects, to artwork.
maintainer	CreativeWork	A maintainer of a Dataset, software package (SoftwareApplication), or other Project. A maintainer is a Person or Organization that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When maintainer is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a Dataset, it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The isBasedOn property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work.
merchant	Order	'merchant' is an out-dated term for 'seller'.
musicBy	VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, VideoObject, MovieSeries, Movie, TVSeries, VideoGame, Clip	The composer of the soundtrack.
offeredBy	Offer	A pointer to the organization or person making the offer.
opponent	ExerciseAction	A sub property of participant. The opponent on this action.
organizer	Event	An organizer of an Event.
parent	Person	A parent of this person.
parents	Person	A parents of the person.
participant	Action	Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with Steve.
producer	CreativeWork	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.).
provider	Trip, Reservation, EducationalOccupationalProgram, Invoice, FinancialIncentive, Service, Action, CreativeWork, ParcelDelivery	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller.
publishedBy	PublicationEvent	An agent associated with the publication event.
publisher	FinancialIncentive, CreativeWork	The publisher of the article in question.
readBy	Audiobook	A person who reads (performs) the audiobook.
recipient	Message, AuthorizeAction, PayAction, TipAction, ReturnAction, SendAction, DonateAction, CommunicateAction, GiveAction	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action.
referee	SportsEvent	An official who watches a game or match closely to enforce the rules and arbitrate on matters arising from the play such as referees, umpires or judges. The name of the effective function can vary according to the sport.
relatedTo	Person	The most generic familial relation.
reviewedBy	WebPage	People or organizations that have reviewed the content on this web page for accuracy and/or completeness.
sdPublisher	CreativeWork	Indicates the party responsible for generating and publishing the current structured data markup, typically in cases where the structured data is derived automatically from existing published content but published on a different site. For example, student projects and open data initiatives often re-publish existing content with more explicitly structured metadata. The sdPublisher property helps make such practices more explicit.
seller	Flight, BuyAction, Demand, Offer, Order	An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider.
sender	ReceiveAction, Message	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the sending end of the action.
sibling	Person	A sibling of the person.
siblings	Person	A sibling of the person.
spokenByCharacter	Quotation	The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork.
sponsor	Organization, Event, Person, Grant, CreativeWork, MedicalStudy	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	The person's spouse.
toRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient who was directly sent the message.
underName	Reservation, Ticket	The person or organization the reservation or ticket is for.
vendor	BuyAction	'vendor' is an earlier term for 'seller'.
winner	LoseAction	A sub property of participant. The winner of the action.