Guillaume is the French equivalent of William, which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm (protection).[1] It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem.
 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 edit
Aristocrats edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet, writer and art critic
B edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka
- Guillaume d'Estouteville, French monk, archbishop and cardinal
F edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume Emmanuel Paul de Homem-Christo, musician better known as Guy-Manuel
- Guillaume Huin d'Estaing (died 1452), antipope-appointed cardinal
K edit
- Guillaume Knecht, rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s
L edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377), French composer and poet
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar
N edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entomologist and botanist
P edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Guillaume Tarrant
- Guillaume De Tonquédec, French stage, television and film actor
V edit
- Guillaume du Vair, French author and lawyer
- Guillaume Vigneault, Canadian novelist
W edit
- Guillaume Warmuz, French football coach and former player
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.276.
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