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.

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
 * Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
 * Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg
 * Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1981), heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg

A

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

B

 * Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet
 * Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey (1491–1543), French diplomat and general
 * Guillaume de Bellecombe, Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican revolutionary
 * Guillaume-François Berthier, French historian and librarian
 * Guillaume Beuzelin, French professional football coach and former player
 * Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), Dutch artist better known under the pseudonym Corneille
 * Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer
 * Guillaume aux Blanches Mains, French catholic cardinal
 * Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere, French diplomat
 * Guillaume Briçonnet (Cardinal) (1445–1514), French cardinal and statesman
 * his son Guillaume Briçonnet (Bishop of Meaux) (1472–1534)


 * Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French military commander, Marshal of the Empire, and political figure
 * Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), French scholar

C

 * Guillaume Cale, French rebel leader
 * Guillaume Canet (born 1973), French actor
 * Guillaume de Chartres (disambiguation), several people
 * Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French writer
 * Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques, Canadian politician
 * Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer
 * Guillaume Costeley, French composer of the Renaissance
 * Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679), French painter and etcher
 * Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style
 * Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French sculptor of the late French Baroque or Style Louis XIV, and early neo-classicism

D

 * Guillaume Dah Zadi (born 1978), Côte d'Ivoire footballer
 * Guillaume Daniel Delprat, Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman
 * Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), French cartographer
 * Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), French actor
 * Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie
 * Guillaume Dubois (1775–1851), French soldier and Marshal of France
 * Guillaume Duchenne (1806–1875), French neurologist
 * Guillaume Dufay (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 French general, politician and writer
 * Guillaume Mathieu Dumas, Napoleonic general
 * Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French anatomist and surgeon
 * Guillaume Durand, French canonist, liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende
 * Guillaume Durand (nephew), French clergyman, a nephew of a more famous Guillaume Durand nicknamed “The Speculator”

E

 * Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka
 * Guillaume d'Estouteville, French monk, archbishop and cardinal

F

 * Guillaume-André Fauteux, Canadian politician and lawyer
 * Guillaume Faye, French political theorist, journalist, writer, and leading member of the French New Right
 * Guillaume Fichet, French scholar
 * Guillaume de Fondaumière, French video game producer

G

 * Guillaume Gallienne, French actor, screenwriter and film director
 * Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher, Quebecois businessman and political figure
 * Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor
 * Guillaume de Gisors (1219–1307), grandson of Jean de Gisors
 * 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, musician better known as Guy-Manuel
 * Guillaume Huin d'Estaing (died 1452), antipope-appointed cardinal

K

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

L

 * Guillaume de Lamoignon de Blancmesnil (1683–1772), French magistrate
 * Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794), French statesman
 * Guillaume Latendresse, National Hockey League player for the Minnesota Wild
 * Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian former athlete
 * Guillaume Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Guillaume Le Gentil (1725–1792), French astronomer
 * Guillaume Legrant, French composer of the early renaissance
 * Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian composer
 * Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661–1704), French mathematician
 * Guillaume de Lorris, French scholar and poet from Lorris

M

 * Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377), French composer and poet
 * Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar

N

 * Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician
 * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, French organist, composer and theorist
 * Guillaume de Nogaret, French statesman, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France

O

 * Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entomologist and botanist

P

 * Guillaume de Palerme, French romance poem
 * Guillaume Patry, retired StarCraft professional. Played under the alias Grrrr...
 * Guillaume Pellicier, French diplomat
 * Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold, French piano maker
 * Guillaume Postel, French linguist, orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer
 * Guillaume Poyet, French judge
 * Guillaume de Puylaurens, French writer and historian

R

 * Guillaume Raoux, French tennis player
 * Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment
 * Guillaume Rocheron, Visual effects artist
 * Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
 * Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French neoclassical and romantic painter
 * Guillaume François Rouelle, French chemist and apothecary

S

 * Guillaume Sarkozy (born 1951), French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers
 * Guillaume Sayer, Canadian fur trader
 * Guillaume de Sonnac, Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250
 * Guillaume Soro, Ivorian politician

T

 * Guillaume Tarrant
 * Guillaume De Tonquédec, French stage, television and film actor

V

 * Guillaume du Vair, French author and lawyer
 * Guillaume Vigneault, Canadian novelist

W

 * Guillaume Warmuz, French football coach and former player