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 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

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 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 <!-- listed under L in French wikipedia !-->
  • 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 Mombaerts (1902-1993), Belgian pianist
  • 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