I am doing some experiments on fuzzy matching and need a set of 1M or more names. They can be anything, basically: people, plants, addresses, concepts, as long as they look real, i.e. not synthetic and there are lot's of them.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia let you download the data conveniently, without API limits, so you can get the titles of their 4M+ English articles. Depending on your needs, you can try other languages as well. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
In particular, file *-all-titles-in-ns0.gz
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Alexa One Top Million Websites
These are domain names, though not sure it meets your requirements.
api.GetStreamSample()
. – philshem♦ Apr 23 '15 at 18:01