Guillaume (given name)
Guillaume is the French equivalent of William, which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm. It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem.
People with this given name include:
Aristocrats
- William the Conqueror, in French Guillaume le Conquérant, Norman conqueror of England
- William of Gellone, in French Guillaume d'Orange, Count of Toulouse and hero of the epic poem Chanson de Guillaume
- William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Guillaume V (disambiguation)
- Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg
A
- Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist
- Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, writer and art critic
B
- Guillaume Barazzone, Italian-Swiss politician
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet
- Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey, French diplomat and general
- Guillaume de Bellecombe, Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican revolutionary
- Guillaume Beuzelin, French football coach and former player
- Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, 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), French cardinal and statesman
- Guillaume Briçonnet (Bishop of Meaux), son of the cardinal
- Guillaume Brune, French soldier, Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon
- Guillaume Budé, French scholar and humanist
C
- Guillaume Cale, French peasant rebel leader
- Guillaume Canet, French actor
- Guillaume de Chartres (disambiguation)
- Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French writer
- Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques, Canadian politician
- Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer
- Guillaume Costeley, French composer
- Guillaume Courtois, French painter and etcher
- Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French sculptor, son of the above
D
- Guillaume Dah Zadi, Ivorian footballer
- Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer
- Guillaume Daniel Delprat, Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman
- Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
- Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault, Canadian politician
- Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie
- Guillaume Dubois, French soldier and Marshal of France
- Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, French neurologist
- Guillaume Du Fay, Franco–Flemish composer and music theorist
- Guillaume Henri Dufour, 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, commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard
- Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist and surgeon
- Guillaume Durand, French canonist, liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende
- Guillaume Durand (nephew), French clergyman and canonist, nephew of the above
- Guillaume Durand (journalist), French journalist
E
- Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka
- Guillaume d'Estouteville, French aristocrat, archbishop, and cardinal
F
- 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, Canadian businessman and politician
- Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor
- Guillaume de Gisors, Norman lord
- Guillaume Gontard, French politician
- Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
- Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician and historian
- Guillaume Guiart, French chronicler and poet
H
- Guillaume Emmanuel Paul de Homem-Christo, 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, French magistrate
- Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian retired National Hockey League player
- Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian former race walker
- Guillaume Lefebvre, Canadian retired National Hockey League player
- Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer
- Guillaume Legrant, French composer
- Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian composer
- Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician
- Guillaume de Lorris, French scholar and poet
M
- Guillaume de Machaut, French composer and poet
- Guillaume Metten, Belgian diplomat
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar
N
- Guillaume de Nogaret, French politician, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France
P
- Guillaume Patry, Canadian retired StarCraft professional player
- Guillaume Pellicier, French prelate and diplomat
- Guillaume Postel, French linguist, orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer
- Guillaume Poyet, French magistrate
- Guillaume de Puylaurens, French Latin chronicler
R
- Guillaume Raoux, French former tennis player
- Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer and man of letters
- Guillaume Rocheron, Oscar-winning French visual effects supervisor
- Guillaume Rondelet, French professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
S
- Guillaume Sarkozy, French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers
- Guillaume Sayer, Métis fur trader
- Guillaume de Sonnac, French Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250
- Guillaume Soro, Ivorian politician
T
- Guillaume de Tonquédec, French actor
V
- Guillaume du Vair, French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament, and Keeper of the Seals of France
- Guillaume Vigneault, Canadian novelist
W
- Guillaume Warmuz, French football coach and former goalkeeper