Create a register of persons with references

Question

To Create a register of persons with biblatex seems to be much more complicate then i expected.

How can i create nice a register of persons semiautomatic with \ref?

Lets assume i have 20 persons that should be mentioned in a document. The grouping and sorting is complicate to implement in LaTeX, but i could do that very easy by hand and LaTeX could manage links and backlinks for me.

At the moment i use a solution like How do I include all authors of cited works in an index of persons?. It works but it can not handle the manual grouping and sorting.

The final document with hyperlinks and backlinks should look like

The screwdriver was turned by \person[Mr.]{Miller}.

Register of Persons
===================
Prof. Dr. M. Miller, University of M (p. 4, 12)
Dr. A. Foobar, University of M (p. 5)

B. Foo, University of Z (p. 1)

Answer 1

You can achieve this using the glossaries package:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{datatool-base}% provides \DTLinitials
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{glossaries}

% Syntax: \newperson{label}{title}{forenames}{surname}{affiliation}
\newcommand*{\newperson}[5]{%
  \newglossaryentry{#1}%
  {%
     name={#2\space\DTLinitials{#3}\space#4},
     sort={#5},% sort on affiliation
     description={#5},% affiliation
     text={#2\ #4},% title \space surname
     user1={#2},% title
     user2={#3},% forenames
     user3={#4}% surname
  }%
}

\let\Ptitle\glsuseri
\let\Pforenames\glsuserii
\let\Psurname\glsuseriii

\newglossarystyle{person}%
{%
   \glossarystyle{list}%
   \glsnogroupskiptrue
   \renewcommand*{\glossaryentryfield}[5]{%
    \item[]\glsentryitem{##1}\glstarget{##1}{##2},
       ##3 (p.~##5)}%
}%

\makeglossaries

\newperson{miller}{Prof.\ Dr.}{Marmaduke}{Miller}{University of M}
\newperson{foobar}{Dr.}{Aardvark}{Foobar}{University of M}
\newperson{foo}{Mr}{Bar}{Foo}{University of Z}

\begin{document}

The screwdriver was turned by \gls{miller}.
The hammer was whacked by \gls{foobar}.
\Gls{foo}['s] thumb throbbed.

\printglossary[title={Register of Persons},style=person]

\end{document}