Guillaume (given name)

Guillaume is the French equivalent of William, which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm (resolute protector). It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem.

People with this given name include:

Aristocrats

• William the Conqueror (c. 1028–1087), in French Guillaume le Conquérant, Norman conqueror of England
• William of Gellone (755-812/14), in French Guillaume d'Orange, Count of Toulouse and hero of the epic poem Chanson de Guillaume
• William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852–1912)
• Guillaume V (disambiguation)
• Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (born 1963)

A

• Guillaume Amontons (1663–1705), French scientific instrument inventor and physicist
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet, writer and art critic

B

• Guillaume Barazzone (born 1982), Italian-Swiss politician
• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet
• Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey (1491–1543), French diplomat and general
• Guillaume de Bellecombe (1728–1792), Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican revolutionary
• Guillaume Beuzelin (born 1979), French football coach and former player
• Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), Dutch artist better known under the pseudonym Corneille
• Guillaume Bigourdan (1851–1932), French astronomer
• Guillaume aux Blanches Mains (1135–1202), French Catholic cardinal
• Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere (1754–1825), French diplomat
• Guillaume Briçonnet (cardinal) (1445–1514), French cardinal and statesman
• Guillaume Briçonnet (Bishop of Meaux) (1472–1534), son of the cardinal
• Guillaume Brune (1764–1815), French soldier, Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon
• Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), French scholar and humanist

C

• Guillaume Cale (died 1358), French peasant rebel leader
• Guillaume Canet (born 1973), French actor
• Guillaume de Chartres (disambiguation)
• Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720), French writer
• Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques (1828–1880), Canadian politician
• Guillaume Cizeron (born 1994), French ice dancer
• Guillaume Costeley ((1530, possibly 1531–1606), French composer
• Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679), French painter and etcher
• Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677–1746), French sculptor
• Guillaume Coustou the Younger (1716–1777), French sculptor, son of the above

D

• Guillaume Dah Zadi (born 1978), Ivorian footballer
• Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), French cartographer
• Guillaume Daniel Delprat (1856–1937), Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman
• Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), French actor
• Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault (born 1994), Canadian politician
• Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie
• Guillaume Dubois (1775–1851), French soldier and Marshal of France
• Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875), French neurologist
• Guillaume Du Fay (1397–1474), Franco–Flemish composer and music theorist
• Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875), Swiss general and topographer who presided over the convention that established the International Red Cross
• Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel, 18th-century French colonial governor of Mauritius
• Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766–1815), French general, politician and writer, commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard
• Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French anatomist and surgeon
• Guillaume Durand (c. 1230–1296), French canonist, liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende
• Guillaume Durand (nephew) (died 1328 or 1330), French clergyman and canonist, nephew of the above
• Guillaume Durand (journalist) (born 1952), French journalist

E

• Guillaume Elmont (born 1981), Dutch judoka
• Guillaume d'Estouteville (c. 1412–1483), French aristocrat, archbishop, and cardinal

F

• Guillaume Faye (1949–2019), French political theorist, journalist, writer, and leading member of the French New Right
• Guillaume Fichet (1433–c. 1480), French scholar
• Guillaume de Fondaumière (born 1971), French video game producer

G

• Guillaume Gallienne (born 1972), French actor, screenwriter, and film director
• Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (1810–1885), Canadian businessman and politician
• Guillaume Geefs (1805–1883), Belgian sculptor
• Guillaume de Gisors (1219–1307), Norman lord
• Guillaume Gontard (born 1971), French politician
• Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (c. 1488–1525), French soldier
• Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876), Dutch politician and historian
• Guillaume Guiart, French chronicler and poet

H

• Guillaume Emmanuel Paul de Homem-Christo (born 1974), better known as Guy-Manuel, French musician, record producer, disc jockey, singer-songwriter, and composer

K

• Guillaume Knecht, rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s

L

• Guillaume de Lamoignon de Blancmesnil (1683–1772), French magistrate
• Guillaume Latendresse (born 1887), Canadian retired National Hockey League player
• Guillaume LeBlanc (born 1962), Canadian former race walker
• Guillaume Lefebvre (born 1981), Canadian retired National Hockey League player
• Guillaume Le Gentil (1725–1792), French astronomer
• Guillaume Legrant (), French composer
• Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894), Belgian composer
• Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661–1704), French mathematician
• Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200–c. 1240), French scholar and poet

M

• Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377), French composer and poet
• Guillaume Metten (1938-2020), Belgian diplomat
• Guillaume Morel (1505–1564), French classical scholar

N

• Guillaume de Nogaret (c. 1260–1313), French politician, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France

P

• Guillaume Patry, Canadian retired StarCraft professional player
• Guillaume Pellicier (c. 1490–1568), French prelate and diplomat
• Guillaume Postel (1510–1581), French linguist, orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer
• Guillaume Poyet (c. 1473–1548), French magistrate
• Guillaume de Puylaurens (after 1200–1274 or later), French Latin chronicler

R

• Guillaume Raoux (born 1970), French former tennis player
• Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713–1796), French writer and man of letters
• Guillaume Rocheron (born 1981), Oscar-winning French visual effects supervisor
• Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), French professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier

S

• Guillaume Sarkozy (born 1951), French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers
• Guillaume Sayer (1799–1868), Métis fur trader
• Guillaume de Sonnac (died 1250), French Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250
• Guillaume Soro (born 1972), Ivorian politician

T

• Guillaume de Tonquédec (born 1966), French actor

V

• Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621), French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament, and Keeper of the Seals of France
• Guillaume Vigneault (born 1970), Canadian novelist

W

• Guillaume Warmuz (born 1970), French football coach and former goalkeeper

See also

• Guillaume (surname)
• Guillaume (disambiguation)

References