diff --git a/config/alfresco/messages/webclient.properties b/config/alfresco/messages/webclient.properties
index 55a154277c..14e2fb9638 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/messages/webclient.properties
+++ b/config/alfresco/messages/webclient.properties
@@ -1609,6 +1609,7 @@ opensearch_desc=Provides ability to search across multiple OpenSearch supported
 search_in=Search In
 no_engines_registered=Failed to find any registered OpenSearch engines!
 current_repo=Current Alfresco Repository
+current_repo_people=Current Alfresco People
 toggle_options=Toggle Options
 no_results=No results
 of=of
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.atom.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.atom.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b345a66e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.atom.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:relevance="http://a9.com/-/opensearch/extensions/relevance/1.0/" xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org/opensearch/1.0/">
+  <generator version="${server.version}">Alfresco (${server.edition})</generator>
+  <title>Alfresco Person Search: ${search.searchTerms}</title>
+  <updated>${xmldate(date)}</updated>
+  <icon>${absurl(url.context)}/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo16.ico</icon>
+  <author> 
+    <name><#if person??>${person.properties.userName}<#else>unknown</#if></name>
+  </author> 
+  <id>urn:uuid:${search.id}</id>
+  <opensearch:totalResults>${search.totalResults}</opensearch:totalResults>
+  <opensearch:startIndex>${search.startIndex}</opensearch:startIndex>
+  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>${search.itemsPerPage}</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
+  <opensearch:Query role="request" searchTerms="${search.searchTerms}" startPage="${search.startPage}" count="${search.itemsPerPage}" language="${search.localeId}"/>
+  <link rel="alternate" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="text/html"/>
+  <link rel="self" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+<#if search.startPage &gt; 1>
+  <link rel="first" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=1&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+  <link rel="previous" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage - 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+</#if>
+<#if search.startPage &lt; search.totalPages>
+  <link rel="next" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage + 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+  <link rel="last" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.totalPages}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+</#if>
+  <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}/api/search/person/description.xml"/>
+<#list search.results as row>
+  <entry>
+    <title>${row.properties.firstName} ${row.properties.lastName}</title>
+    <link rel="alternate" href="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}"/>
+<#if row.assocs["cm:avatar"]?exists>
+    <icon>${absurl(url.context)}${row.assocs["cm:avatar"][0].url}</icon>
+<#else>
+    <icon>${absurl(url.context)}/images/icons/user_large.gif</icon>
+</#if>
+    <id>urn:uuid:${row.id}</id>
+    <updated>${xmldate(row.properties.modified)}</updated>
+    <summary>
+             <#if row.properties.jobtitle??>${row.properties.jobtitle},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.organization??>${row.properties.organization},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.location??>${row.properties.location},</#if>
+             <#--
+             <#if row.properties.persondescription??>${row.properties.persondescription.content}</#if>
+             -->
+    </summary>
+    <relevance:score>${row.score}</relevance:score>
+  </entry>
+</#list>
+</feed>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.desc.xml b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.desc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad18288e88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.desc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<webscript>
+  <shortname>Alfresco Person Search (OpenSearch Enabled)</shortname>
+  <description>Execute Person Search against Alfresco Repository</description>
+  <url>/api/search/person.html?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/search/person.html?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/api/search/person.atom?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/search/person.atom?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/api/search/person.rss?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/search/person.rss?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <url>/api/search/person.portlet?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}</url>
+  <authentication>guest</authentication>
+</webscript>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.html.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.html.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7d4e4cb889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.html.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+  <head profile="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"> 
+    <title>Alfresco Person Search: ${search.searchTerms}</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/alfresco/css/main.css" TYPE="text/css">
+    <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="${url.serviceContext}/api/search/person/description.xml" title="Alfresco Person Search"/>
+    <meta name="totalResults" content="${search.totalResults}"/>
+    <meta name="startIndex" content="${search.startIndex}"/>
+    <meta name="itemsPerPage" content="${search.itemsPerPage}"/>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <td><img src="${url.context}/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo32.png" alt="Alfresco" /></td>
+        <td><nobr><span class="mainTitle">Alfresco Person Search</span></nobr></td>
+     </tr>
+    </table>
+    <br>
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <td>Results <b>${search.startIndex}</b> - <b><#if search.startIndex == 0>0<#else>${search.startIndex + search.totalPageItems - 1}</#if></b> of <b>${search.totalResults}</b> for <b>${search.searchTerms}</b> visible to user <b><#if person??>${person.properties.userName}<#else>unknown</#if>.</b></td>
+     </tr>
+    </table>
+    <br>
+    <table>
+<#list search.results as row>            
+      <tr>
+      <td><img src="${url.context}${row.assocs[\"cm:avatar\"][0].url}"/></td><td>${row.firstName} ${row.lastName}</td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+      <td></td>
+      <td><#if row.properties.jobtitle??>${row.properties.jobtitle},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.organization??>${row.properties.organization},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.location??>${row.properties.location},</#if>
+             <#--
+             <#if row.properties.persondescription??>${row.properties.persondescription.content}</#if>
+             -->
+             </td>
+      </tr>
+</#list>
+    </table>
+    <br>
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=1&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">first</a></td>
+<#if search.startPage &gt; 1>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage - 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">previous</a></td>
+</#if>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">${search.startPage}</a></td>
+<#if search.startPage &lt; search.totalPages>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage + 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">next</a></td>
+</#if>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.totalPages}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">last</a></td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.portlet.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.portlet.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d001be6293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.portlet.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <td>Results <b>${search.startIndex}</b> - <b>${search.startIndex + search.totalPageItems - 1}</b> of <b>${search.totalResults}</b> for <b>${search.searchTerms}</b> visible to user <b><#if person??>${person.properties.userName}<#else>unknown</#if>.</b></td>
+     </tr>
+    </table>
+    <br>
+    <table>
+<#list search.results as row>            
+      <tr>
+      <td><img src="${url.context}${row.assocs[\"cm:avatar\"][0].url}"/></td><td>${row.firstName} ${row.lastName}</td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+      <td></td>
+      <td><#if row.properties.jobtitle??>${row.properties.jobtitle},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.organization??>${row.properties.organization},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.location??>${row.properties.location},</#if>
+             <#--
+             <#if row.properties.persondescription??>${row.properties.persondescription.content}</#if>
+             -->
+             </td>
+      </tr>
+</#list>
+    </table>
+    <br>
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=1&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">first</a></td>
+<#if search.startPage &gt; 1>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage - 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">previous</a></td>
+</#if>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">${search.startPage}</a></td>
+<#if search.startPage &lt; search.totalPages>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage + 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">next</a></td>
+</#if>
+        <td><a href="${scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.totalPages}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")}">last</a></td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.query_.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.query_.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5bec5dd035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.query_.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+(
+  TYPE:"{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}person" AND
+  (
+    (
+<#list 1..terms?size as i>
+      d\:content:${terms[i - 1]} <#if (i < terms?size)> OR </#if>
+</#list>
+    )
+    (
+<#list 1..terms?size as i>
+      d\:text:${terms[i - 1]} <#if (i < terms?size)> OR </#if>
+</#list>
+    )
+  )
+)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.rss.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.rss.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..218f0860be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearch.get.rss.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<rss version="2.0" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+<channel>
+  <title>Alfresco Person Search: ${search.searchTerms}</title>
+  <link>${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}"</link>
+  <description>Alfresco Person Search: ${search.searchTerms}</description>
+  <language>${search.localeId}</language>
+  <lastBuildDate>${xmldate(date)}</lastBuildDate>
+  <pubDate>${xmldate(date)}</pubDate>
+  <generator>Alfresco ${server.edition} v${server.version}</generator>
+  <image>
+    <title>Alfresco Search: ${search.searchTerms}</title>
+    <width>16</width>
+    <height>16</height>
+    <url>${absurl(url.context)}/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo16.ico)}</url>
+  </image>
+  <opensearch:totalResults>${search.totalResults}</opensearch:totalResults>
+  <opensearch:startIndex>${search.startIndex}</opensearch:startIndex>
+  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>${search.itemsPerPage}</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
+  <opensearch:Query role="request" searchTerms="${search.searchTerms}" startPage="${search.startPage}" count="${search.itemsPerPage}" language="${search.localeId}"/>
+  <atom:link rel="self" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+<#if search.startPage &gt; 1>
+  <atom:link rel="first" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=1&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+  <atom:link rel="previous" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage - 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+</#if>
+<#if search.startPage &lt; search.totalPages>
+  <atom:link rel="next" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.startPage + 1}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/> 
+  <atom:link rel="last" href="${absurl(scripturl("?q=${search.searchTerms?url}&p=${search.totalPages}&c=${search.itemsPerPage}&l=${search.localeId}")?xml)}" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+</#if>
+  <atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}/api/search/person/description.xml"/>
+<#list search.results as row>            
+  <item>
+    <title>${row.firstName} ${row.lastName}</title>
+    <link>${absurl(url.serviceContext)}</link>
+    <description><#if row.properties.jobtitle??>${row.properties.jobtitle},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.organization??>${row.properties.organization},</#if>
+             <#if row.properties.location??>${row.properties.location},</#if>
+             <#--
+             <#if row.properties.persondescription??>${row.properties.persondescription.content}</#if>
+             -->
+    </description>
+    <pubDate>${xmldate(row.properties.modified)}</pubDate>
+    <guid isPermaLink="false">${row.id}</guid>
+  </item>
+</#list>
+</channel>
+</rss>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.desc.xml b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.desc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a94cb0b62a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.desc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<webscript>
+  <shortname>Person Search Description</shortname>
+  <description>OpenSearch description document for Alfresco Repository person search</description>
+  <url>/api/search/person/description.xml</url>
+  <url>/search/person/description.xml</url>
+  <format default="opensearchdescription">argument</format>
+</webscript>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.opensearchdescription.ftl b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.opensearchdescription.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..68da921b5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/search/personsearchdescription.get.opensearchdescription.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org">
+  <ShortName>Alfresco Person Search</ShortName>
+  <LongName>Alfresco ${server.edition} Person Search ${server.version}</LongName>
+  <Description>Search Alfresco People using keywords</Description>
+  <#comment>IE takes first template from list, thus html response is listed first</#comment>
+  <Url type="text/html" template="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}/api/search/person?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}"/>
+  <Url type="application/atom+xml" template="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}/api/search/person.atom?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}"/>
+  <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="${absurl(url.serviceContext)}/api/search/person.rss?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}"/>
+  <Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">${absurl(url.context)}/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo16.ico</Image>
+</OpenSearchDescription>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/alfresco/web-scripts-application-context.xml b/config/alfresco/web-scripts-application-context.xml
index ce520b3df3..a36ad295f8 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/web-scripts-application-context.xml
+++ b/config/alfresco/web-scripts-application-context.xml
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@
       <property name="repositoryImageResolver" ref="webscripts.repo.imageresolver" />
    </bean>
 
+   <!--  Alfresco Web Client Person Search (OpenSearch) -->
+   <bean id="webscript.org.alfresco.repository.search.personsearch.get" class="org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.KeywordSearch" parent="webscript">
+      <property name="searchService" ref="SearchService" />
+      <property name="serviceRegistry" ref="ServiceRegistry" />     
+      <property name="repositoryImageResolver" ref="webscripts.repo.imageresolver" />
+   </bean>
+
    <!--  Alfresco (OpenSearch) Proxy -->
    <bean id="webscript.org.alfresco.repository.search.searchproxy.get" class="org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.bean.SearchProxy" parent="webscript">
       <property name="configService" ref="webscripts.config" />
diff --git a/config/alfresco/web-scripts-config.xml b/config/alfresco/web-scripts-config.xml
index 6a9bad0d00..e4609929b2 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/web-scripts-config.xml
+++ b/config/alfresco/web-scripts-config.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,21 @@
                </url>
             </engine>
 
+            <engine label-id="current_repo_people" label="Alfresco Person Search">
+               <url type="application/opensearchdescription+xml">
+                  /api/search/person/description.xml
+               </url>
+               <url type="application/atom+xml">
+                  /api/search/person.atom?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}
+               </url>
+               <url type="application/rss+xml">
+                  /api/search/person.rss?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}
+               </url>
+               <url type="text/html">
+                  /api/search/person?q={searchTerms}&amp;p={startPage?}&amp;c={count?}&amp;l={language?}&amp;guest={alf:guest?}
+               </url>
+            </engine>
+
          </engines>
          
          <proxy>