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Third person

The person category representing everyone and everything other than the person(s) speaking and the person(s) spoken to. Practically all noun phrases are third person.

Examples are: he, she, it, they, the dog, my master, Mercury, beauty etc.

In English, the only non-third-person noun phrases are the first-person pronouns I/me and we/us and the second-person pronoun you.