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Thing > Person

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

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from Thing
`description`	Text	A short description of the item.
`image`	URL	URL of an image of the item.
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.
Properties from Person
`additionalName`	Text	An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
`address`	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.
`alumniOf`	EducationalOrganization	An educational organizations that the person is an alumni of.
`awards`	Text	Awards won by this person or for this creative work.
`birthDate`	Date	Date of birth.
`children`	Person	A child of the person.
`colleagues`	Person	A colleague of the person.
`contactPoints`	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
`deathDate`	Date	Date of death.
`email`	Text	Email address.
`familyName`	Text	Family name. In the U.S., the last name of an Person. This can be used along with givenName instead of the Name property.
`faxNumber`	Text	The fax number.
`follows`	Person	The most generic uni-directional social relation.
`gender`	Text	Gender of the person.
`givenName`	Text	Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a Person. This can be used along with familyName instead of the Name property.
`homeLocation`	Place or ContactPoint	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 preceding a Person's name such as M.D. /PhD/MSCSW.
`interactionCount`	Text	A count of a specific user interactions with this item—for example, `20 UserLikes`, `5 UserComments`, or `300 UserDownloads`. The user interaction type should be one of the sub types of UserInteraction.
`jobTitle`	Text	The job title of the person (for example, Financial Manager).
`knows`	Person	The most generic bi-directional social/work relation.
`memberOf`	Organization	An organization to which the person belongs.
`nationality`	Country	Nationality of the person.
`parents`	Person	A parents of the person.
`performerIn`	Event	Event that this person is a performer or participant in.
`relatedTo`	Person	The most generic familial relation.
`siblings`	Person	A sibling of the person.
`spouse`	Person	The person's spouse.
`telephone`	Text	The telephone number.
`workLocation`	Place or ContactPoint	A contact location for a person's place of work.
`worksFor`	Organization	Organizations that the person works for.

This class contains derivatives of IPTC rNews properties. rNews is a data model of publishing metadata with serializations currently available for RDFa as well as HTML5 Microdata. More information about the IPTC and rNews can be found at rnews.org.

Schema Draft Version 0.9

Example 1

Original HTML:

Jane Doe
<img src="janedoe.jpg" />

Professor
20341 Whitworth Institute
405 Whitworth
Seattle WA 98052
(425) 123-4567
<a href="mailto:jane-doe@xyz.edu">jane-doe@illinois.edu</a>

Jane's home page:
<a href="www.janedoe.com">janedoe.com</a>

Graduate students:
<a href="www.xyz.edu/students/alicejones.html">Alice Jones</a>
<a href="www.xyz.edu/students/bobsmith.html">Bob Smith</a>

With Microdata:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
  <span itemprop="name">Jane Doe</span>
  <img src="janedoe.jpg" itemprop="image" />

  <span itemprop="jobTitle">Professor</span>
  <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
    <span itemprop="streetAddress">
      20341 Whitworth Institute
      405 N. Whitworth
    </span>
    <span itemprop="addressLocality">Seattle</span>,
    <span itemprop="addressRegion">WA</span>
    <span itemprop="postalCode">98052</span>
  </div>
  <span itemprop="telephone">(425) 123-4567</span>
  <a href="mailto:jane-doe@xyz.edu" itemprop="email">
    jane-doe@xyz.edu</a>

  Jane's home page:
  <a href="www.janedoe.com" itemprop="url">janedoe.com</a>

  Graduate students:
  <a href="www.xyz.edu/students/alicejones.html" itemprop="colleagues">
    Alice Jones</a>
  <a href="www.xyz.edu/students/bobsmith.html" itemprop="colleagues">
    Bob Smith</a>
</div>