Furuta (written: 古田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese actor , Japanese baseball player and player-manager , Japanese football player , Japanese politician , Japanese football player , Japanese torture and murder victim , Japanese professional wrestler , Imperial Japanese Navy dive bomber pilot , Japanese daimyō , Japanese basketball player , Japanese social reformer, educator, radio and television personality, and politician , Japanese samurai , Japanese astronomer , Japanese swimmer , Japanese hurdler , Japanese jurist