Viesturs (name)

Viesturs is both a Latvian masculine given name, and less commonly, a surname. The name is derived from the Latvian viesturis, meaning "hospitable". The first recorded usage of the name in the areas of modern-day Latvia date from the 12th and 13th-centuries.

Individuals bearing the name Viesturs include:


 * Given name:
 * Viesturs (also, Viestards, Viesthard, and Vesthardus; d. 1230), Semigallian duke
 * Viesturs Bērziņš (born 1974), Latvian cyclist
 * Viesturs Kairišs (born 1971), Latvian opera, film, and theatre director
 * Viesturs Koziols (born 1963), Latvian real estate developer, media and sports entrepreneur, photographer, and political and public figure
 * Viesturs Lukševics (born 1987), Latvian cyclist
 * Viesturs Meijers (born 1967), Latvian chess Grandmaster


 * Surname:
 * Ed Viesturs (born 1959), American mountaineer