Guillaume (given name)

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GuillaumePronunciation[ɡijom]GenderMaleLanguageGermanic languagesOriginWord/namewille + helm (protection)MeaningVehement protectorRegion of originNorthern EuropeOther namesRelated namesGuillaume (surname), William

Guillaume is the French equivalent of William, which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm (resolute protector).[1] It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem.

People with this given name include:

  • 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)
  • Guillaume Amontons (1663-1705), French scientific instrument inventor and physicist
  • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French poet, writer and art critic
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guillaume Elmont (born 1981), Dutch judoka
  • Guillaume d'Estouteville (c. 1412-1483), French aristocrat, archbishop, and cardinal
  • Guillaume Faury (born 1968), French engineer and businessman, current chief executive officer at the aerospace corporation Airbus SE and current chairman of its civil aircraft division, Airbus SAS
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guillaume Emmanuel Paul de Homem-Christo (born 1974), better known as Guy-Manuel, French musician, record producer, disc jockey, singer-songwriter, and composer
  • Guillaume Knecht, rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s
  • 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 (fl. 1405-1449), 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
  • Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), French composer and poet
  • Guillaume Metten (1938-2020), Belgian diplomat
  • Guillaume Mombaerts (1902-1993), Belgian pianist
  • Guillaume Morel (1505-1564), French classical scholar
  • Guillaume de Nogaret (c. 1260-1313), French politician, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guillaume de Tonquédec (born 1966), French actor
  • 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
  • Guillaume Warmuz (born 1970), French football coach and former goalkeeper
  • Guillaume (surname)
  • Guillaume (disambiguation)