# List people

Operation ID: `people`

Group: People Management › People

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/lensing/v1/endpoints/people)

`GET /people/person`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Lists people. GET people/person/:id returns a richer record, including compensation and external identifiers.

To filter by name, email, employeeNumber, or external identifier, use POST people/person/search.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | string · v1 | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |

## Query surface

- `id` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `status` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `employmentCategory` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between, like
- `lastModifiedDate` — filter by eq, ne, gt, gte, lt, lte, in, notIn, between
- Orderable: id, employeeNumber, status, employmentCategory, lastModifiedDate
- Selectable: id, employeeNumber, firstName, lastName, name, displayName, email, status, employmentCategory, weeklyWorkingHours, entityId, entityName, locationName, lastModifiedDate
- `page[size]` — Page size
- `page[cursor]` — Opaque continuation cursor

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data`, an array of peopleRow:

| Field | Type | Required | Filter | Sort | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The unique identifier for the person. |
| `employeeNumber` | string \| null | no | no | yes | The person's business number. |
| `firstName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The person's first name. |
| `lastName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The person's last name. |
| `name` | string \| null | no | no | no | The person's full name, in first-name-last-name order. |
| `displayName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name the person goes by: their preferred first and last name where set, otherwise their legal name. Returned only — it can be neither filtered nor sorted on. |
| `email` | string \| null | no | no | no | The person's work email address. |
| `status` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The current employment status of the person. Possible values: 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Planned', 'Cancelled'. |
| `employmentCategory` | string \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`), Pattern (`like`) | yes | The employment category assigned to this person. |
| `weeklyWorkingHours` | decimal \| null | no | no | no | The person's standard working hours per week, for example 40 for full time. A number of hours, not an amount. |
| `entityId` | string \| null | no | no | no | The legal entity the person is employed by. |
| `entityName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of the legal entity this person belongs to. |
| `locationName` | string \| null | no | no | no | The name of this person's work location. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time \| null | no | Exact (`eq`, `ne`), Range (`gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `between`), Any of (`in`, `notIn`) | yes | The date and time the person record last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "employeeNumber": "<employeeNumber>",
      "firstName": "<firstName>",
      "lastName": "<lastName>",
      "name": "<name>",
      "displayName": "<displayName>",
      "email": "<email>",
      "status": "<status>",
      "employmentCategory": "<employmentCategory>",
      "weeklyWorkingHours": "19.99",
      "entityId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "entityName": "<entityName>",
      "locationName": "<locationName>",
      "lastModifiedDate": "2026-01-15T09:30:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "hasMore": true,
    "nextCursor": "<nextCursor>"
  }
}
```

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure
- `401` — The request carries no valid access token.
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no `Retry-After` header.
- `500` — Internal server error