Guillaume (given name)
| 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 |
Guillaume French pronunciation: [gijom] is the French equivalent of William (given name), which is of old Germanic origin.[1]
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
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- Guillaume Amontons
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet, writer and art critic
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- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
- Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey (1491–1543), French diplomat and general
- Guillaume de Bellecombe
- Guillaume-François Berthier
- Guillaume Beuzelin
- Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), Dutch artist better known under the pseudonym Corneille
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- Guillaume aux Blanches Mains
- Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere
- Guillaume Briçonnet (Cardinal) (1445–1514)
- his son Guillaume Briçonnet (Bishop of Meaux) (1472–1534)
- Guillaume Marie Anne Brune
- Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), French scholar
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- Guillaume Cale
- Guillaume Canet (born 1973), French actor
- Guillaume de Chartres
- Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu
- Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques
- Guillaume Cizeron
- Guillaume Costeley
- Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679), French painter and etcher
- Guillaume Coustou the Elder
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger
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- Guillaume Dah Zadi (born 1978), Côte d'Ivoire footballer
- Guillaume Daniel Delprat
- 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
- Guillaume Mathieu Dumas, Napoleonic general
- Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French anatomist and surgeon
- Guillaume Durand
- Guillaume Durand (nephew)
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- Guillaume Gallienne
- Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher
- Guillaume Geefs
- Guillaume de Gisors (1219–1307), grandson of Jean de Gisors
- Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (c. 1488 – 1525), French soldier
- Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876), Dutch politician and historian
- Guillaume Guiart
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- Guillaume Emmanuel Paul de Homem-Christo, musician better known as Guy-Manuel
- Guillaume Huin d'Estaing (died 1452), antipope-appointed cardinal
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- Guillaume Knecht, rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s
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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
- Guillaume Lefebvre
- Guillaume Le Gentil (1725–1792), French astronomer
- Guillaume Legrant
- Guillaume Lekeu
- Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661–1704), French mathematician
- Guillaume de Lorris
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- Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377), French composer and poet
- Guillaume Morel
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- Guillaume Raoux
- Guillaume Thomas François Raynal
- Guillaume Rocheron, Visual effects artist
- Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
- Guillaume-Joseph Roques
- Guillaume François Rouelle
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- Guillaume Sarkozy (born 1951), French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers
- Guillaume Sayer
- Guillaume de Sonnac
- Guillaume Soro
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See also
References
- ↑ 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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