Personal info
Affiliations
Required: Name is required · Description is required · Job title is required · URL is required
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Person"
}
</script>How to use
01
Enter your identity
Fill in your full name, job title, and a short description, plus your website URL. Image, email, telephone, gender, and birth date are optional and only emitted when filled.
02
Connect your affiliations
Type your employer into Works for and your school into Alumni of; each becomes a nested node in the output. Paste comma-separated profile URLs into the Same as box.
03
Copy to your author page
Review the live JSON-LD preview, confirm the four required-field warnings are gone, then press Copy script and paste the markup into your about page or author bio template.
Why Person Schema Generator
- Full Person schema with Organization (worksFor) and CollegeOrUniversity (alumniOf) sub-nodes.
- sameAs accepts comma-separated profile URLs for social signals.
- Eligible for knowledge-panel results on personal brand searches.
Common questions
Does Person schema improve E-E-A-T?
Not as a direct ranking switch, but it makes your expertise verifiable by machines. When your articles name an author and the author page carries Person markup linking to real profiles and a real employer, the experience and expertise story becomes something Google can actually confirm.
What goes in the sameAs field of Person schema?
URLs of profiles that are unambiguously you: LinkedIn, X, GitHub, a Wikipedia page, a speaker profile. Separate them with commas or new lines and each becomes an entry in the sameAs array. Skip profiles you've abandoned; stale links weaken the identity signal.
Is a person schema generator the same as an author schema generator?
Effectively yes. Schema.org has no separate Author type; an author is a Person referenced from an Article's author property. What people call an author schema generator produces exactly this Person markup, which your article markup can then point at.
How does Person schema connect me to my employer?
The Works for field emits a worksFor property containing an Organization node with your employer's name. If that company publishes its own Organization markup elsewhere, search engines can join the two entities, which strengthens both profiles.
Where should person schema markup live on my site?
On the page that represents you: an about page for a personal site, or the author archive page on a blog. One canonical location beats scattering it everywhere, and article pages can reference that URL from their author field.
Can I leave birth date and gender out of Person schema?
Yes, and most people should. Both fields are optional, the tool omits anything left blank, and neither affects rich result eligibility. Publish only what you're comfortable having permanently machine-readable.
What does the person json ld generator output for alumniOf?
A nested CollegeOrUniversity node carrying the institution name you typed. It's a small credibility marker that rounds out a professional profile, especially for consultants and academics whose credentials matter to readers.