biblatex: in bibliography, first author's last name comes first, other author's last names come second

Question

I am using biblatex for my references.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,maxcitenames=2,style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\bibliography{file}

In the bibliography, the last name of the first author of a book/paper is put first, while the last name of the second/third author of the book is put second (see image).

Whether I put the names in the .bib file like this

@book{vnm53,
    author = {{von Neumann}, John and Morgenstern, Oskar},
    title = {Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour},
    .....
}

or this

@book{brealey06,
    author = {Richard A. Brealey and Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen},
    title = {Corporate Finance},
    ....
}

is not making a difference.

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How can I get it to consistently put the last name first?

I really thought there should be a duplicate for this, but all I could come up with is Biblatex does not reverse the first and last names of the second author which does not propose a solution and biblatex - Order last-first for the names of multiple editors? which might be too much. — moewe, Jun 06 '15 at 14:34
@moewe Finding the right duplicate can be a reall pain in the lalala ;-) — Johannes_B, Jun 06 '15 at 14:37
If any of these solutions worked for you, you might wan tto indicate that by accepting (and upvoting) a answer or replying to a comment that helped. If none of the solutions were helpful, please explain why not. — moewe, Jun 07 '15 at 08:07
Your comment helped and I couldn't find a way to upvote that: So actually replying to comments is the correct way? The link that said it was a feature, not a bug, helped me: I accepted it the way it was. Thank you! — elena, Jun 09 '15 at 14:20

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 14:35

Following is possible and changes the separator between names as well, just to make it obvious what is lastname and what is firstname of whom.

elenaBiblatexNameFormat

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,maxnames=20]{biblatex}
\DeclareNameAlias{author}{last-first}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\renewcommand*{\multinamedelim}{{{\color{red!80!black}\addsemicolon\addspace}}}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{bertram,aksin}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Oh I have just seen \DeclareNameAlias{author}{first-last} affects all of them — DaniCee, Dec 07 '16 at 03:59

Miren Altuna Etxabe · Answer 2 · 2021-09-22T08:55:25.980

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I found the answer here:

Author name and first name order with biblatex

edited Sep 22 '21 at 08:55

answered Sep 22 '21 at 08:31

Miren Altuna Etxabe

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biblatex: in bibliography, first author's last name comes first, other author's last names come second

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