Guillaume is the

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equivalent of

William (name) William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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 conq ...

, which is of old Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'',

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, 2nd edition, , p.276. Among its oldest well-known carriers was

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Em ...

's cousin William of Gellone.

People with this surname

* Albert Guillaume (1873–1942), French caricaturist *

Alfred Guillaume Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Islam. Career Guillaume was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, the son of Alfred Guillaume. He took up Arabic ...

(1888–1966), Islamic scholar * Augustin Guillaume (1895–1983), French general * Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861–1938), French-Swiss physicist * Edith Guillaume (1943–2013), Danish opera singer *

Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was a German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary, ...

(1927–1995), a close aide to West German chancellor Willy Brandt who turned out to be a spy for East Germany's secret service * Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960), French linguist * Henri Guillaume (1812–1877), Belgian general and military historian *

Jacquette Guillaume Jacquette Guillaume ( fl. 1665) was a French writer. Her best-known work was ''Les dames illustres, où par bonnes et fortes raisons il se prouve que le sexe féminin surpasse en toutes sortes de genres le sexe masculin'', a work of 443 pages publ ...

(

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1665), French writer * James Guillaume (1844–1916), anarchist *

Jean Guillaume Jean Guillaume (Fosses-la-Ville, 28 October 1918 – Namur, 9 February 2001) was a Belgian writer in Wallon. He investigated this language and he published in French ''Œuvres Poétiques Wallonnes'' (''Wallon Poetic Works''). Among his associates ...

(1918–2001), Belgian writer * Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (1822–1905), French sculptor * Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), French art dealer *

Pierre Guillaume Pierre Guillaume (born 22 December 1940) is a French political activist and publisher. He was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the Holocaust denying publishing house of the same name. A former member of ''S ...

(born 1941), book-shop founder * Robert Guillaume (1927–2017 as Robert P. Williams), American stage and television actor *

Sylvain Guillaume Sylvain Guillaume (born 6 July 1968 in Champagnole, Jura) is a former French nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he won a silver in the 15 km individual, then a bronze in the 4 x ...

(born 1968), French skier

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