Gunārs is a Latvian masculine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

. It is a cognate of the name Gunnar. Notable people with the given name include: *

Gunārs Astra Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and an anti-Soviet dissident who was arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961, and was sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arr ...

(1931–1988), Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident * Gunārs Birkerts (1925–2017), Latvian-born American architect *

Gunārs Cilinskis Gunārs Cilinskis (23 May 193125 July 1992) was a Latvian theater and film actor, film director and screenwriter. Cilinskis was born in Riga and died in Riga district. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1979). Personal life * Wife — Velt ...

(1931–1992), Latvian actor, film director and screenwriter *

Gunārs Ķirsons Gunārs Ķirsons (born 17 May 1951, in Omsk) is a Latvian entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Latvian chain of restaurants. He is also the president of the Latvian Judo Federation. Biography His father, Alberts Ķirsons, was a suc ...

(born 1951), Latvian entrepreneur and businessman *

Gunārs Lūsis Gunārs Lūsis (born 1950) is a Latvian artist and graphical designer. Lūsis is notable for creating the design for some of the modern Latvian coins with denominations in Latvian lats, and for authoring the logo for the Latvian presidency of t ...

(born 1950), Latvian artist and graphic designer *

Gunārs Piesis Gunārs Piesis (19 July 1931 – 9 February 1996) was a Latvian film director. Many of Piesis's films are adaptations of classic stories, and he was one of the most popular directors during the Soviet era. Popular films include ''Nāves ēna'' ( ...

(1931–1996), Latvian film director *

Gunārs Priede Gunārs Priede (March 17, 1928 – December 22, 2000) was a Soviet and Latvian writer and playwright. He was originally a civil engineer for the Soviet government in Latvia who became the most important Latvian playwright of the Soviet era. H ...

(1928–2000), Latvian playwright, engineer and architect *

Gunārs Saliņš Gunars Saliņš (21 April 1924 – 29 June 2010) was a Modernism, modernist poet within the Latvian literature, Latvian lyric poetry tradition. He became a leading voice of the "Hell's Kitchen artists" (Elles ķēķis)—a Latvian emigre artist ...

(1924–2010), Latvian modernist poet *

Gunārs Skvorcovs Gunārs Skvorcovs (born 13 January 1990) is a Latvian ice hockey right winger, currently playing for Odense Bulldogs. Playing career Skvorcovs made his debut for Metalurgs already in 2004-05, when he was only fourteen years old and continued to ...

(born 1990), Latvian ice hockey right winger *

Gunārs Ulmanis Gunārs Ulmanis (1938 – 17 July 2010) was a Latvian football right wing midfielder, one of the most famous Latvian footballers of the 1960s. Biography While at school Ulmanis played both basketball and football but the famous Latvian footbal ...

(1938–2010), Latvian football right wing midfielder

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