title: Furnas (surname)
text: # Furnas (surname)
  
  Furnas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Charles Furnas (1880–1941), first airplane passenger
  * Clifford C. Furnas (1900–1969), author, Olympic athlete, scientist, expert on guided missiles, university president, and public servant
  * Doug Furnas (1959–2012), American wrestler and powerlifter
  * George Furnas (born 1954), professor and Associate Dean for Academic Strategy at the School of Information of the University of Michigan
  * J. C. Furnas (1906–2001), American writer and historian
  * Robert Wilkinson Furnas (1824–1905), second governor of Nebraska, USA
  