diff --git a/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.01.user.doc.sql b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.01.user.doc.sql
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.01.user.doc.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+CREATE TABLE {$NAMESPACE}_user.user_user_fdocument (
+  id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
+  objectPHID VARBINARY(64) NOT NULL,
+  isClosed BOOL NOT NULL,
+  authorPHID VARBINARY(64),
+  ownerPHID VARBINARY(64),
+  epochCreated INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
+  epochModified INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL
+) ENGINE=InnoDB, COLLATE {$COLLATE_TEXT};
diff --git a/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.02.user.field.sql b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.02.user.field.sql
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.02.user.field.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+CREATE TABLE {$NAMESPACE}_user.user_user_ffield (
+  id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
+  documentID INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
+  fieldKey VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL COLLATE {$COLLATE_TEXT},
+  rawCorpus LONGTEXT NOT NULL COLLATE {$COLLATE_SORT},
+  termCorpus LONGTEXT NOT NULL COLLATE {$COLLATE_SORT},
+  normalCorpus LONGTEXT NOT NULL COLLATE {$COLLATE_SORT}
+) ENGINE=InnoDB, COLLATE {$COLLATE_TEXT};
diff --git a/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.03.user.ngrams.sql b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.03.user.ngrams.sql
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170907.ferret.03.user.ngrams.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+CREATE TABLE {$NAMESPACE}_user.user_user_fngrams (
+  id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
+  documentID INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
+  ngram CHAR(3) NOT NULL COLLATE {$COLLATE_TEXT}
+) ENGINE=InnoDB, COLLATE {$COLLATE_TEXT};
diff --git a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
--- a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
+++ b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
@@ -4257,6 +4257,10 @@
     'PhabricatorUserEditorTestCase' => 'applications/people/editor/__tests__/PhabricatorUserEditorTestCase.php',
     'PhabricatorUserEmail' => 'applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserEmail.php',
     'PhabricatorUserEmailTestCase' => 'applications/people/storage/__tests__/PhabricatorUserEmailTestCase.php',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretDocument' => 'applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretDocument.php',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretEngine' => 'applications/people/search/PhabricatorUserFerretEngine.php',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretField' => 'applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretField.php',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams' => 'applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams.php',
     'PhabricatorUserFulltextEngine' => 'applications/people/search/PhabricatorUserFulltextEngine.php',
     'PhabricatorUserIconField' => 'applications/people/customfield/PhabricatorUserIconField.php',
     'PhabricatorUserLog' => 'applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserLog.php',
@@ -9840,6 +9844,7 @@
       'PhabricatorFlaggableInterface',
       'PhabricatorApplicationTransactionInterface',
       'PhabricatorFulltextInterface',
+      'PhabricatorFerretInterface',
       'PhabricatorConduitResultInterface',
     ),
     'PhabricatorUserBadgesCacheType' => 'PhabricatorUserCacheType',
@@ -9862,6 +9867,10 @@
     'PhabricatorUserEditorTestCase' => 'PhabricatorTestCase',
     'PhabricatorUserEmail' => 'PhabricatorUserDAO',
     'PhabricatorUserEmailTestCase' => 'PhabricatorTestCase',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretDocument' => 'PhabricatorFerretDocument',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretEngine' => 'PhabricatorFerretEngine',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretField' => 'PhabricatorFerretField',
+    'PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams' => 'PhabricatorFerretNgrams',
     'PhabricatorUserFulltextEngine' => 'PhabricatorFulltextEngine',
     'PhabricatorUserIconField' => 'PhabricatorUserCustomField',
     'PhabricatorUserLog' => array(
diff --git a/src/applications/people/search/PhabricatorUserFerretEngine.php b/src/applications/people/search/PhabricatorUserFerretEngine.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/applications/people/search/PhabricatorUserFerretEngine.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+
+final class PhabricatorUserFerretEngine
+  extends PhabricatorFerretEngine {
+
+  public function newNgramsObject() {
+    return new PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams();
+  }
+
+  public function newDocumentObject() {
+    return new PhabricatorUserFerretDocument();
+  }
+
+  public function newFieldObject() {
+    return new PhabricatorUserFerretField();
+  }
+
+  public function newSearchEngine() {
+    return new PhabricatorPeopleSearchEngine();
+  }
+
+  public function getObjectTypeRelevance() {
+    // Always sort users above other documents, regardless of relevance
+    // metrics. A user profile is very likely to be the best hit for a query
+    // which matches a user.
+    return 500;
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUser.php b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUser.php
--- a/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUser.php
+++ b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUser.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     PhabricatorFlaggableInterface,
     PhabricatorApplicationTransactionInterface,
     PhabricatorFulltextInterface,
+    PhabricatorFerretInterface,
     PhabricatorConduitResultInterface {
 
   const SESSION_TABLE = 'phabricator_session';
@@ -1434,6 +1435,14 @@
   }
 
 
+/* -(  PhabricatorFerretInterface  )----------------------------------------- */
+
+
+  public function newFerretEngine() {
+    return new PhabricatorUserFerretEngine();
+  }
+
+
 /* -(  PhabricatorConduitResultInterface  )---------------------------------- */
 
 
diff --git a/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretDocument.php b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretDocument.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretDocument.php
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?php
+
+final class PhabricatorUserFerretDocument
+  extends PhabricatorFerretDocument {
+
+  public function getApplicationName() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+  public function getIndexKey() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretField.php b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretField.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretField.php
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?php
+
+final class PhabricatorUserFerretField
+  extends PhabricatorFerretField {
+
+  public function getApplicationName() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+  public function getIndexKey() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams.php b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams.php
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/applications/people/storage/PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams.php
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?php
+
+final class PhabricatorUserFerretNgrams
+  extends PhabricatorFerretNgrams {
+
+  public function getApplicationName() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+  public function getIndexKey() {
+    return 'user';
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretEngine.php b/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretEngine.php
--- a/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretEngine.php
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
     return 'all';
   }
 
+  public function getObjectTypeRelevance() {
+    return 1000;
+  }
+
   public function getFieldForFunction($function) {
     $function = phutil_utf8_strtolower($function);
 
diff --git a/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretMetadata.php b/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretMetadata.php
--- a/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretMetadata.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/ferret/PhabricatorFerretMetadata.php
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@
   }
 
   public function getRelevanceSortVector() {
+    $engine = $this->getEngine();
+
     return id(new PhutilSortVector())
+      ->addInt($engine->getObjectTypeRelevance())
       ->addInt(-$this->getRelevance());
   }