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Getting a list of names of random places and names of people

I want to showcase a product to a potential new client.

The best raw data comes from an existing customer.

I want to use existing customer data for demo, but without compromising privacy anyway.

The best solution I see is to run a script that replaces all names, addresses, and locations in the database with randomly chosen names.

So now I need to find a list of place names and people names to be used as a source. Preferably it will be in a text file so that it can be easily read.

This seems to be a fairly common problem. Does anyone know a site where I can upload these names?

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Check out: http://infochimps.org/ for example: http://infochimps.org/datasets/d-1990-census-name-files and http://infochimps.org/datasets/word-list-10-000 -common-place-names



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I know this question is a little old, but here are my 2 cents.

I also wanted to suggest that you could pull data from public universities. For example, http://www.wisc.edu/directories/?q=john+smith . You can find other open directories for all public schools.



All it takes is to write a script that iterates over the list of names, EG http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/us/2010/1000 and for each name lookup, a number of public directories and storing the first 5 results.

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