Guillaume (given name)

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.

Guillaume

Guillaume le Conquérant (William the Conqueror)
Pronunciation	[ɡijom]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Germanic languages
Origin
Word/name	wille + helm (protection)
Meaning	Vehement protector
Region of origin	Northern Europe
Other names
Related names	Guillaume (surname), William

People with this given name

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 Barazzone (born 1982), Italian-Swiss politician
• 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 Deschênes-Thériault, Canadian politician
• 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 Metten (1938-2020), Belgian diplomat
• 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

See also

• Guillaume (surname)
• Guillaume (disambiguation)