Brian,
Could you please clarify where Find Faces is?  If I'm missing something it would not be the first time, but I sure do not see this in iPhoto '11 (9.1 build 475), and IIRC there have been several large discussions on various Apple help sites requesting this but, conforming to Geoff's expectation Apple ignored the requests.  At least, that is how it was last time I checked.  
Tom

On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Geoffrey Heard wrote:

> Thanks for that info, Brian. v.8 doesn't offer such sn option. Has Apple been listening to users? Gasp!!!
> 
> Looks like an upgrade is in order.
> 
> Cheers, geoff
> 
>> With iPhoto '11 or version 9.1 [from iLife 11], you can choose either to 'Find Faces' or not to do so.
>> With older versions, I don't know.
>> 
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>> Regards from brianF
>> ===============
>> 
>> On 20/12/2010, at 10:56 AM, paolo savonuzzi wrote:
>> 
>>> On 20/dic/2010, at 00.36, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Can the "faces" feature in iPhoto be turned off? if so, how?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://bit.ly/i6ppxg :-p
>>> --
>>> paolo