Guillaume (given name) explained
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.
People with this given name
Aristocrats
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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”
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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See also
Notes and References
- Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition,, p.276.
