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French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
equivalent of
William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
, which is of old Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'',
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People with this given name


Aristocrats

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William the Conqueror William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 10 ...
(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 Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (''Guillaume Marie Louis Christian''; born 1 May 1963) is the third son and youngest child of Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg. Life Prince Guillaume was born in Betzdorf Cas ...
* Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1981), heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg


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Guillaume Amontons Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact. He is ...
* Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet, writer and art critic


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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544, in Monfort – July 1590, in Mauvezin) was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated acro ...
* Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey (1491–1543), French diplomat and general *
Guillaume de Bellecombe Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (20 February 1728 – 28 February 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican revolutionary. According to most accounts he was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe ...
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Guillaume-François Berthier Guillaume-François Berthier (7 April 1704 – 15 December 1782) was a Jesuit professor and writer, tutor of the French Dauphin's sons, and librarian of the court library. Berthier was born at Issoudun; he taught philosophy at Rennes and Rouen, an ...
* Guillaume Beuzelin * Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), Dutch artist better known under the pseudonym Corneille *
Guillaume Bigourdan Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (; 6 April 1851 – 28 February 1932) was a French astronomer. Personal life Bigourdan was born at Sistels, Tarn-et-Garonne to Pierre Bigourdan and Jeanne Carrière. When his teachers and local curate recognised ...
* Guillaume aux Blanches Mains * Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere * Guillaume Briçonnet (Cardinal) (1445–1514) :* his son
Guillaume Briçonnet (Bishop of Meaux) Guillaume Briçonnet (c. 1472 – 24 January 1534) was the Bishop of Meaux from 1516 until his death in 1534. Biography Briçonnet was born into a wealthy aristocratic family about the year 1472. His father was Guillaume Briçonnet (1445–1 ...
(1472–1534) * Guillaume Marie Anne Brune *
Guillaume Budé Guillaume Budé (; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; 1468 – 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France. Budé was also the first keeper of the ...
(1467–1540), French scholar


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Guillaume Cale Guillaume Cale (sometimes anglicized to William Kale, also known as Guillaume Caillet, popularly known as Jacques Bonhomme ("Jack Goodfellow") or Callet) was a wealthy peasant from the village of Mello near Beauvais, who became leader of the pea ...
* Guillaume Canet (born 1973), French actor * Guillaume de Chartres (disambiguation), several people * Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu * Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques * Guillaume Cizeron * Guillaume Costeley *
Guillaume Courtois Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679Guillaume Coustou the Elder *
Guillaume Coustou the Younger Guillaume Coustou the Younger (19 March 1716 – 13 July 1777) was a French sculptor of the late French Baroque or Style Louis XIV, and early neo-classicism. Life and career The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, ...


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* Guillaume Dah Zadi (born 1978), Côte d'Ivoire footballer *
Guillaume Daniel Delprat Guillaume Daniel Delprat CBE (1 September 1856 – 15 March 1937) was a Dutch- Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman. He was a developer of the froth flotation process for separating minerals. Delprat was born in Delft, th ...
* Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), French cartographer * Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), French actor *
Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie (April 30, 1775 – February 28, 1851) was a Marshal of France. On February 12, 1812, he married the daughter of Marshal Pérignon, ''Agathe-Virginie''. Early life and French revolutionary wars Guillaume Dode was bor ...
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Guillaume Dubois Guillaume Dubois (6 September 1656 – 10 August 1723) was a French cardinal and statesman. Life and government Early years Dubois, the third of the four great Cardinal-Ministers ( Richelieu, Mazarin, Dubois, and Fleury), was born in Brive-la- ...
(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 Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 178714 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and held the Swiss office of General four times in his career, firstly in 1847 when he led the ...
(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, or William Durand (c. 1230 – 1 November 1296), also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop ...
* Guillaume Durand (nephew)


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Guillaume Elmont Guillaume Ricaldo Elmont (born 10 August 1981 in Rotterdam) is a male retired judoka from the Netherlands, whose biggest success so far was winning the world title at the World Championships in Cairo, Egypt. He did so in the 73–81 kg weigh ...
* Guillaume d'Estouteville


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* Guillaume-André Fauteux * Guillaume Faye *
Guillaume Fichet Guillaume Fichet (; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470. Biography He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He stu ...
* Guillaume de Fondaumière


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Guillaume Gallienne Guillaume Gallienne (born 8 February 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiogra ...
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Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (August 16, 1810 – September 16, 1885) was a Quebecois businessman and political figure. He represented Jacques-Cartier in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member. He was born Jean-Guillaume Gaucher ...
* Guillaume Geefs * 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 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (21 August 1801 – 19 May 1876), was a Dutch politician and historian; he was born in Voorburg, near The Hague. Overview Groen is a Dutch historical icon. He was an educated and devout man of the Dutch middle c ...
(1801–1876), Dutch politician and historian *
Guillaume Guiart Guillaume Guiart (or Guiard) (died c. 1316) was a French chronicler and poet. Life He was probably born at Orléans, and served in the French army in Flanders in 1304. Having been disabled by a wound he began to write, lived at Arras and then in ...


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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 Guillaume Knecht is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for the Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage № 763), and Pia, as a . Playing career Guillaume Knecht made his début for t ...
, rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s


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Guillaume de Lamoignon de Blancmesnil Guillaume II de Lamoignon, seigneur de Blancmesnil et de Malesherbes (Paris, 1683 —1772) was a French magistrate. Biography The second son of the président Chrétien François de Lamoignon, he was named general avocat for the Parlement of Pa ...
(1683–1772), French magistrate *
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (, 6 December 1721 – 22 April 1794), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Lou ...
(1721–1794), French statesman *
Guillaume Latendresse Guillaume Latendresse (born May 24, 1987) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the second round, 45th overall, of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and played i ...
, National Hockey League player for the Minnesota Wild *
Guillaume LeBlanc Guillaume LeBlanc (born April 14, 1962 in Sept-Îles, Quebec) is a Canadian former athlete who mainly competed in the 20 kilometre walk. A winner of the 20 km event at the 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie he competed for Canada at the 1992 Sum ...
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Guillaume Lefebvre Guillaume Lefebvre (born May 7, 1981) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played four seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Boston Bruins. Playing career Lefeb ...
* Guillaume Le Gentil (1725–1792), French astronomer * Guillaume Legrant *
Guillaume Lekeu Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu (20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer. Life Lekeu was born in Heusy, a village near Verviers, Belgium. He originally studied piano and music theory under Alphonse Voss, the director of ...
* Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661–1704), French mathematician *
Guillaume de Lorris Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200c. 1240) was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the ''Roman de la Rose''. Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230 ...


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Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut (, ; also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death t ...
(1300–1377), French composer and poet *
Guillaume Morel Guillaume Morel (1505 – 19 February 1564), French classical scholar, was born at Le Teilleul in Normandy. After acting as proof-reader in a Paris firm, he set up for himself, and subsequently succeeded Turnebus as king's printer ...


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* Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers * Guillaume de Nogaret


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* Guillaume-Antoine Olivier


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Guillaume de Palerme ''Guillaume de Palerme'' ("William of Palerne") is a French romance poem, later translated into English where it is also known as ''William and the Werewolf''. The French verse romance was composed , commissioned by Countess Yolande (who is gene ...
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Guillaume Patry Guillaume Patry is a Canadian professional StarCraft player who plays under the alias Grrrr... He is from Quebec City, was a StarCraft world champion in 1999. He dominated the scene as a random player before he arrived in Korea, where he then ...
, retired StarCraft professional. Played under the alias Grrrr... *
Guillaume Pellicier Guillaume Pellicier (c. 1490 – 1568) (Guillaume Pellissier) was a French prelate and diplomat. Life Born at Melgueil in Languedoc, he was educated by his uncle, the bishop of Maguelonne, whom he succeeded in 1529. In 1536 he was transferred ...
, French diplomat * Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold * Guillaume Postel * Guillaume Poyet * Guillaume de Puylaurens


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Guillaume Raoux Guillaume Raoux (born 14 February 1970) is a retired tennis player from France. Career Raoux reached the Wimbledon junior singles final in 1988. He turned professional in 1989. Pro tour The right-hander won one singles career title ( Queensland ...
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Guillaume Thomas François Raynal Guillaume Thomas Raynal (12 April 1713 – 6 March 1796) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Early life He was born at Lapanouse in Rouergue. He was educated at the Jesuit school of Pézenas, and received pr ...
* 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 Pierre Guillaume Sayer (October 18, 1799 – August 7, 1868) was a Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hu ...
* Guillaume de Sonnac * Guillaume Soro


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Guillaume Tarrant The characters of '' Oz'', fictional characters on the television series about prison life, are a diverse mixture of inmates from various gangs and prison staff. Main inmates Key Other inmates The Aryans The Aryans are a f ...
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Guillaume De Tonquédec Guillaume Emmanuel Marie de Quengo de Tonquédec (born 18 October 1966) is a French stage, television and film actor. He first earned fame in his homeland for his role as Renaud Lepic in the TV series ''Fais pas ci, fais pas ça'' (2007–2017) o ...


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Guillaume du Vair Guillaume du Vair (7 March 1556 – 3 August 1621) was a French author and lawyer. Life He was born in Paris. After taking holy orders, he exercised only legal functions for most of his career. However, from 1617 till his death he was Bishop ...
* Guillaume Vigneault


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Guillaume Warmuz Guillaume Warmuz (born 22 May 1970) is a French football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He played 374 games in Ligue 1 during 13 seasons, representing in the competition Lens and Monaco. Playing career Born in Saint-Valli ...


See also

* Guillaume (surname) *
Guillaume (disambiguation) Guillaume may refer to: People * Guillaume (given name), the French equivalent of William * Guillaume (surname) Other uses * Guillaume (crater) See also * '' Chanson de Guillaume'', an 11th or 12th century poem * Guillaume affair, a Cold War ...


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