Person
A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).
Properties
68 of its own, and 14 it inherits. Each says what kind of value it takes.
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| additional | Value: Text | An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name. |
| address | Value: Postal | Physical address of the item. |
| affiliation | Value: Organization | An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team. |
| agent | Value: Interaction | 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). |
| alumni | Value: Educational | An organization that the person is an alumni of. |
| award | Value: Text | An award won by or for this item. |
| awardsSuperseded | Value: Text | Superseded by award. Awards won by or for this item. |
| birth | Value: Date | Date of birth. |
| birth | Value: Place | The place where the person was born. |
| brand | Value: Brand or Organization | The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person. |
| call | Value: Text | A callsign, as used in broadcasting and radio communications to identify people, radio and TV stations, or vehicles. |
| children | Value: Person | A child of the person. |
| colleague | Value: Person or URL | A colleague of the person. |
| colleaguesSuperseded | Value: Person | Superseded by colleague. A colleague of the person. |
| contact | Value: Contact | A contact point for a person or organization. |
| contact | Value: Contact | Superseded by contact A contact point for a person or organization. |
| death | Value: Date | Date of death. |
| death | Value: Place | The place where the person died. |
| duns | Value: Text | The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. |
| Value: Text | Email address. | |
| family | Value: Text | Family name. In the U.S., the last name of a Person. |
| fax | Value: Text | The fax number. |
| follows | Value: Person | The most generic uni-directional social relation. |
| funder | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. |
| funding | Value: Grant | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. |
| gender | Value: Gender | 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". |
| given | Value: Text | Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person. |
| global | Value: 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. |
| has | Value: Certification | Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person. |
| has | Value: Credential | A credential awarded to the Person or Organization. |
| has | Value: Occupation | The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates. |
| has | Value: Offer | Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service. |
| has | Value: Place | Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person. |
| height | Value: Distance or Quantitative | The height of the item. |
| home | Value: Contact | A contact location for a person's residence. |
| honorific | Value: Text | An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr. |
| honorific | Value: Text | An honorific suffix following a Person's name such as M.D./PhD/MSCSW. |
| interaction | Value: Interaction | The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. |
| isic | Value: Text | The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place. |
| job | Value: Defined | The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager). |
| knows | Value: Person | The most generic bi-directional social/work relation. |
| knows | Value: Text, Thing or URL | 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. |
| knows | Value: Language or Text | 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. |
| life | Value: Event | A life event like baptism, communions, Bar Mitzvahs, Aqiqah, Namakarana, Miyamairi, burial, .... |
| makes | Value: Offer | A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person. |
| member | Value: Member | An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. |
| naics | Value: Text | The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person. |
| nationality | Value: Country | Nationality of the person. |
| net | Value: Monetary | The total financial value of the person as calculated by subtracting the total value of liabilities from the total value of assets. |
| owns | Value: Thing | Things owned by the organization or person. |
| parent | Value: Person | A parent of this person. |
| parentsSuperseded | Value: Person | Superseded by parent. A parents of the person. |
| performer | Value: Event | Event that this person is a performer or participant in. |
| pronounsPending | Value: Defined | 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. |
| publishing | Value: Creative | 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. |
| related | Value: Person | The most generic familial relation. |
| seeks | Value: Demand | A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand). |
| sibling | Value: Person | A sibling of the person. |
| siblingsSuperseded | Value: Person | Superseded by sibling. A sibling of the person. |
| skills | Value: Defined | 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 | Value: Organization or 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 | Value: Person | The person's spouse. |
| tax | Value: Text | The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain. |
| telephone | Value: Text | The telephone number. |
| vat | Value: Text | 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 | Value: Mass or Quantitative | The weight of the product or person. |
| work | Value: Contact | A contact location for a person's place of work. |
| works | Value: Organization | Organizations that the person works for. |
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| additional | Value: Text or 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. |
| alternate | Value: Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Value: Text or Text | A description of the item. |
| digital.org.ai | Value: Number | Digital maturity score from 0.0 (fully analog/manual) to 1.0 (fully digital/autonomous). Indicates the degree to which an entity operates digitally. |
| disambiguating | Value: 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 | Value: Property | 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 | Value: Image | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| main | Value: Creative | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Value: Text | The name of the item. |
| owner | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization who owns this Thing. |
| potential | Value: Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| same | Value: 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. |
| subject | Value: Creative | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| url | Value: URL | URL of the item. |
Subtypes
Patient is a more specific kind of Person.
Where it is a value
103 properties take a Person as their value.
- accountable
Person on CreativeWork - acquired
From on OwnershipInfo - actoron 12 types
- actorson 9 types
- agenton Action
- alumnion Educational
Organization and Organization - artiston 3 types
- athleteon Sports
Team - attendeeon Event
- attendeeson Event
- authoron Creative
Work and Rating - authorized
Representative on Organization and Product - away
Team on SportsEvent - bcc
Recipient on Message - booking
Agent on Reservation - borroweron Lend
Action - brokeron 4 types
- buyeron Sell
Action - by
Artist on MusicAlbum and Music Recording - candidateon Vote
Action - cc
Recipient on Message - characteron Creative
Work - childrenon Person
- claim
Interpreter on Claim - coachon Sports
Team - colleagueon Person
- colleagueson Person
- coloriston 3 types
- competitoron Sports
Event - composeron Event and Music
Composition - contributoron Creative
Work and Event - copyright
Holder on CreativeWork - creatoron Creative
Work and User Comments - credited
To on MusicRelease - customeron Invoice and Order
- directoron 11 types
- directorson 9 types
- editoron Creative
Work - employeeon Organization
- employeeson Organization
- endorseeon Endorse
Action - endorserson Diet
- followeeon Follow
Action - followson Person
- founderon Organization
- founderson Organization
- funded
Item on Grant - funderon 6 types
- granteeon Digital
Document Permission - hiring
Organization on JobPosting - home
Team on SportsEvent - illustratoron Book
- importeron Product
- inkeron 3 types
- instructoron Course
Instance - knowson Person
- landlordon Rent
Action - legal
Representative on Organization - legislation
Countersigned on LegislationBy - legislation
Passed on LegislationBy - legislation
Responsible on Legislation - lenderon Borrow
Action - lettereron 3 types
- loseron Win
Action - lyriciston Music
Composition - maintaineron Creative
Work - memberon Organization and Program
Membership - memberson Organization and Program
Membership - merchanton Order
- music
By on 9 types - music
Group on MusicMember Group - offered
By on Offer - opponenton Exercise
Action - organizeron Event
- owneron Thing
- parenton Person
- parentson Person
- participanton Action
- pencileron 3 types
- performeron Event
- performerson Event
- produceron Creative
Work - provideron 10 types
- published
By on PublicationEvent - publisheron Creative
Work and Financial Incentive - read
By on Audiobook - recipienton 9 types
- refereeon Sports
Event - related
To on Person - reviewed
By on WebPage - sd
Publisher on CreativeWork - selleron 5 types
- senderon Message and Receive
Action - siblingon Person
- siblingson Person
- spoken
By on QuotationCharacter - sponsoron 6 types
- spouseon Person
- to
Recipient on Message - translatoron Creative
Work and Event - under
Name on Reservation and Ticket - vendoron Buy
Action - winneron Lose
Action
Where this comes from
Quoted from Schema.org, and credited. Nothing in this definition is written by us.
- Published bySchema.orgschema.org/Person
- ReleaseVersion 30.116 September 2026
- LicenseCC BY-SA 3.0Free to copy and adapt, with credit, under the same licence
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