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"Famous Person" wordlist?

 
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LordKinbote
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:14 am    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote

I am looking for the equivalent of a dictionary wordlist for names of famous people that I could do some Python manipulation on. Anyone know of such a wordlist, or know a way to get one? Preferably, it should be in a file format easy to deal with, like txt.
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LordKinbote
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:17 am    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote

While trying to Google my problem away, I found this. It's both funny that he ran out of famous people after two, and that those two were the two he chose.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:33 am    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote

You might have to do this by category.

Oddly enough I searched for famous actors in a CSV and found this:

http://mnemotechnics.org/x/files/forum/947/initials.txt
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:29 am    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote

Wikipedia has links to the Forbes Celebrity 100 for several years. I only looked at the most recent one, but it seems it would be easy enough to copy it to excel, then copy just the column of names into a .txt file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Celebrity_100

It's not perfect, but it's a start.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:55 pm    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote

Were either links useful?
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