This paper develops a multi template matching based method for single face detection in general background images. Firstly two eyes in whole template is used for determining the potential location of the face roughly. Secondly 5 whole face templates with different width height ratios are used for searching and localization. Finally some edge features are used for verifying the detection results. Input image is resampled via constant ratio in order to deal with the problem of multi scale detection. Experiment results show that it is relatively fast and rather successful.