This element identifies the name of a famous person in the text. There is a similar element to identify company names (<companyname>).

Not as famous as <famousname>Einstein</famousname>.

The content of this element does not need to be presented in a different style to surrounding text, though this is a possibility.

The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.

Parent elements:

- (via "Names in Text" group: <issuetitle> <booktitle> <addinfo> <meetingname> <term> <caption> <endnotes> <endnote> <supplementfile> <email> <webaddress> <b> <i> <smallcaps> <u> <box> <roman> <script> <tt> <overline> <strikethrough> <terminology>

- - (via "Document Title Content" group: <supertitle> <title> <subtitle> <shorttitle> <abbrevtitle> <doititle> <shortsectionhead> )

- - (via "Title Content" group: <journaltitle> <journalsubtitle> <chaptitle> <pubname> <presentationtitle> <collectworktitle> <docpubtitle> <patenttitle> <articletitle> <listtitle> )

- - (via "Paragraph Content" group: <authornote> <para> <poemline> <computertext> <source> <entry> ) )

The DTD model for this element:

 (only text allowed) 

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT famousname                     (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST famousname
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Inline-level Content : Formatting and Identifying : Generic-Oriented

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)