Furman (surname)

Furman is a surname of a Polish-Jewish, Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian origin, a variation of Fuhrmann.

Notable people with the name include:

• Adam Nathaniel Furman (born 1982), British designer
• Ashrita Furman (born 1954), American holder of more than 160 Guinness world records
• Brad Furman (born 1975), American film director
• Dean Furman (born 1988), South African footballer
• Dmitri Furman (1943–2011), Russian political scientist
• Dominik Furman (born 1992), Polish footballer
• Ezra Furman (born 1986), American singer and songwriter
• James Furman Bisher (1918–2012), American sports writer
• Gabriel Furman (state senator) (1800–1854), New York politician and historian
• Jason Furman (born 1970), American economist
• Jesse M. Furman (born 1972), Federal judge for the Southern District of New York
• John C. Furman (c. 1856–1898), American financier
• Lucy Furman (1870–1958), American writer from Kentucky
• Maayan Furman-Shahaf (born 1986), Israeli high jumper and triple jumper
• Richard Furman (1755–1825), South Carolina Baptist minister, for whom Furman University is named
• Semyon Furman (1920–1978), Soviet chess grandmaster
• Simon Furman (born 1961), British comic book writer
• William Henry Furman, the defendant in the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia

See also

• All pages with titles containing Furman