Titled Person Reference

Name: Titled Person Reference
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Identifies personal names preceded by salutations (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof, etc.) in Australian documents. Uses structural regex for honorific + capitalised name components with corroborative evidence from family-name and forename census dictionaries.

Type: keyword_dictionary
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium confidence: salutation prefix provides strong signal but names following salutations may be partial or ambiguous in some document formats.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: AML/CTF Act (Cth), HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), TIA Act 1979 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, personal-name
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 6

Should match

Dear Dr Sarah Thompson — Doctor with full name
Attention: Prof. James Wilson — Professor with period abbreviation
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby — Honourable title with two name components

Should not match

Dr Pepper is a soft drink — Dr followed by single name then lowercase words, insufficient name components
The mrs clause in the contract — Lowercase mrs does not match salutation pattern

Known false positives

Salutations preceding non-name words in informal text or brand references. Mitigation: Require capitalised words following the salutation and corroborative family-name dictionary.