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''Guilhem'' and the Catalan form ''Guillem''.

People with this given name

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William the Conqueror William the Conqueror (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was D ...

(c. 1028 – 1087), in French Guillaume le Conquérant, Norman conqueror of England *

William of Gellone William of Gellone ( 755 – 28 May 812 or 814), the medieval William of Orange, was the second Duke of Toulouse from 790 until 811. In 804, he founded the abbey of Gellone. He was canonized a saint in 1066 by Pope Alexander II.

(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 ...

Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (''Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie''; born 11 November 1981), is the heir apparent to the Luxembourg throne since October 2000 and regent of the country since October 2024, as the son of Grand ...

(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 ...

, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist *

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...

(1880–1918), French poet, writer and art critic

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* Guillaume Barazzone (born 1982), Italian-Swiss politician * 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 Guillaume Budé (; Onomastic Latinisation, Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; January 26, 1467 – August 20, 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de Fra ...

(1467–1540), French scholar

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* Guillaume Cale, French rebel leader *

Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and Show jumping, show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like ''Joyeux Noël'', ...

(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 Guillaume Coustou the Elder (; 29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculpture, sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Académie ro ...

, 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 Deschênes-Thériault, Canadian politician * Guillaume Daniel Delprat, Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman *

Guillaume Delisle Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas. Childhoo ...

(1675–1726), French cartographer *

Guillaume Depardieu Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the second oldest child of Gérard Depardieu. Early life Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first ...

(1971–2008), French actor *

Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Viscount of Martignac (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 war ...

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-l ...

(1775–1851), French soldier and Marshal of France * Guillaume Duchenne (1806–1875), French neurologist *

Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of h ...

(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 t ...

(1787–1875), Swiss general and topographer who presided over the convention that established the International Red Cross *

Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel (born in 1668 in Saint-Malo, France) established French rule of Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Af ...

, 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 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 o ...

, French canonist, liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende *

Guillaume Durand (nephew) Guillaume Durand (died 1328 or 1330) was a French clergyman, a nephew of a more famous Guillaume Durand, nicknamed "The Speculator". Like his uncle, he was a canonist, was rector of the University of Toulouse and succeeded his uncle as Bishop of ...

, French clergyman, a nephew of a more famous

nicknamed “The Speculator”

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* Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka *

Guillaume d'Estouteville Guillaume d'Estouteville (c. 1412–1483) was a French aristocrat of royal blood who became a leading bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal. He held a number of Church offices simultaneously. He conducted th ...

, French monk, archbishop and cardinal

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* 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

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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 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (21 August 1801, Voorburg – 19 May 1876), was a Dutch politician and historian. Overview Groen's father, Petrus Jacobus Groen van Prinsterer, was a physician, and at adult age operated in aristocratic circles. ...

(1801–1876), Dutch politician and historian * Guillaume Guiart, French chronicler and poet

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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 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, 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 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 ...

, Belgian composer *

Guillaume de l'Hôpital Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 7 June 1661 – 2 February 1704) was a French mathematician. His name is firmly associated with l'Hôpital's rule for calculating limits involving indetermin ...

(1661–1704), French mathematician *

Guillaume de Lorris Guillaume de Lorris () was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the . Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, and that the work was completed f ...

, French scholar and poet from Lorris

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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 to ...

(1300–1377), French composer and poet * Guillaume Metten (1938-2020), Belgian diplomat * Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar

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* Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician * Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, French organist, composer and theorist *

Guillaume de Nogaret Guillaume de Nogaret (c. 1260 April 1313) was a French statesman, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France. Early life Nogaret was born in Saint-Félix-Lauragais, Haute-Garonne. The family held a small ancestral property o ...

, French statesman, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France

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Guillaume-Antoine Olivier Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (; 19 January 1756, Les Arcs near Toulon – 1 October 1814, Lyon) was a French entomologist and naturalist. Life Olivier studied medicine in Montpellier, where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Br ...

, French entomologist and botanist

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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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Guillaume Raoux Guillaume Raoux (; born 14 February 1970) is a French former tennis player. 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 Open ...

, French tennis player *

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (12 April 1713 – 6 March 1796), also known as Abbé Raynal, was a French people, French writer, former Catholic Church, Catholic priest, and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Early life He was bo ...

, 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

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* 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 Guillaume de Sonnac (died 6 April 1250) was Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250. Personal life Sonnac was born to a noble family in the French region of Rouergue. No date of birth survives for the Grand Master. He was describe ...

, Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250 * Guillaume Soro, Ivorian politician

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* Guillaume Tarrant * Guillaume De Tonquédec, French stage, television and film actor

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* Guillaume du Vair, French author and lawyer * Guillaume Vigneault, Canadian novelist

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* Guillaume Warmuz, French football coach and former player

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