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In Citing author's full name in biblatex, lockstep proposes the following solution to typeset author names

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @book{Knu86,
        author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
        year = {1986},
        title = {The \TeX book},
    }
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}


\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}


\usepackage{hyperref}
% BEGIN_FOLD


\hypersetup{citecolor=SlateBlue2, citebordercolor=SlateBlue2, colorlinks=true}


% END_FOLD


\usepackage[giveninits=true]{biblatex}
% BEGIN_FOLD


\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\DeclareCiteCommand{\citeauthorfirstlast}
{\boolfalse{citetracker}%
    \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
    \DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{first-last}%
    \usebibmacro{prenote}}
{\ifciteindex
    {\indexnames{labelname}}
    {}%
    \printnames{labelname}}
{\multicitedelim}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}}


\DeclareCiteCommand{\citeauthorlastfirst}
{\boolfalse{citetracker}%
    \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
    \DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{last-first}%
    \usebibmacro{prenote}}
{\ifciteindex
    {\indexnames{labelname}}
    {}%
    \printnames{labelname}}
{\multicitedelim}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}}


% END_FOLD


\begin{document}


\citeauthorfirstlast{Knu86}

\citeauthorlastfirst{Knu86}

\citeauthor{Knu86}

\cite{Knu86}

\printbibliography




\end{document}

However, this solution does not meet the following requirements

  1. Sometimes, it is possible we want to typeset the name as

Donald Knuth

(the full first name should appear although we use the option giveninits=true)

  1. The name of the author must be linked to the bibitem in the bibliography
Al-Motasem Aldaoudeyeh
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  • The cleanest way is to augment the data model with middle names so that you can control initials separately for first names and middle names. See this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/693143/biblatex-second-authors-name-initialized/693345#693345 – PLK Aug 13 '23 at 14:16

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