Guillaume (given name)

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)