Data sets for realistic random/test data generation [closed]

Question

Where to get data sets for random or test data generation, such as names/surnames with distribution, address data, university/school names, company names etc.?

I've found the list of English names and surnames, with the count of them (unfortunately I haven't noted from where I got that). I got address database from Poland. However these data sets from other countries would also be very useful for me. So with university and school names.

What data do you need as source for such information? Could you provide links to such data? (of course, only those who are free publicly available)

Answer 1

I think you will find answer to your question in following topics:

Sample database for exercise

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/202092/where-can-i-find-free-and-open-data

Answer 2

There are many open source and commericial test data generators on internet. Below 2 are good ones

1. http://www.sqledit.com/dg/
2. http://www.generatedata.com/#about
3. for random numbers/strings: http://www.random.org/

Answer 3

Amazon has made several public data sets available for free download: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/