Guillermo () is the Spanish form of the male given name

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 ...

. The name is also commonly shortened to 'Guille' or, in Latin America, to nickname 'Memo'.

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Guillermo Amor Guillermo Amor Martínez (; born 4 December 1967) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a versatile midfielder. After spending most of his professional career with Barcelona, winning several accolades in a ten-year tenure, he ended it i ...

(born 1967), Spanish football manager and former player *

Guillermo Arévalo Guillermo Arévalo Valera (born 1952) is a Shipibo ''vegetalista'' and businessperson from the Maynas Province of Peru. His Shipibo name is Kestenbetsa. In 1982, Arévalo co-founded Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional (AMETRA), an organization ...

(born 1952), a Shipibo shaman and ''curandero'' (healer) of the Peruvian Amazon; among the Shipibo he is known as Kestenbetsa *

Guillermo Barros Schelotto Guillermo Barros Schelotto (; born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine football manager and former forward who currently manages the Paraguay national team. Barros Schelotto played 16 years of his professional career in the Argentine Primera Divis ...

(born 1973), Argentine former football player *

Guillermo Bermejo Guillermo Bermejo Rojas (6 October 1975) is a Peruvian politician. He was elected for the Congress of Peru for the 2021-2026 period. Biography He studied law at the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. However, he did not finish his univer ...

(born 1975), Peruvian politician * Guillermo C. Blest (1800–1884), Anglo-Irish physician settled in Chile * Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player *

Guillermo Chong Guillermo Baltazar Chong Díaz is a Chilean geologist and professor at the Catholic University of the North at Antofagasta, Chile. In 2018 he was named distinguished son ( es, hijo ilustre) of Arica. The mineral chongite is named after him. In ...

, Chilean geologist * Guillermo Coria, another Argentine tennis player *

Guillermo Dávila Guillermo Dávila (born 18 March 1955, in Bailadores) is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas. Biography After starting his career in theatre in the 1970s, Dávila first gained national fame in after starring in the ...

, Venezuelan actor and singer * Guillermo Díaz (actor) (born 1975), American actor of Cuban descent *

Guillermo Diaz (basketball) Guillermo Díaz (born March 4, 1985) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player who plays for Cangrejeros de Santurce of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Díaz was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Associ ...

, Puerto Rican basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers *

Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...

, Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, actor, former special effects artist *

Guillermo Díaz (footballer, born 1979) Guillermo Díaz Gastambide (born 31 December 1979 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally ...

, football player *

Guillermo Díaz (footballer, born 1930) Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Zambrano (29 December 1930 – 25 September 1997) was a Chilean football midfielder who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Santiago Wanderers Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a foo ...

(1930-1997) *

Guillermo Endara Guillermo David Endara Galimany (May 12, 1936 – September 28, 2009) was a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1989 to 1994. Raised in a family allied to Panameñista Party founder Arnulfo Arias, Endara attended s ...

(1936–2009), Panamanian President, 1989–1994 * Guillermo Eleazar, Filipino police officer *

Guillermo Galván Galván Guillermo Galván Galván (born January 19, 1943) is a Mexican general. He formerly served as secretary of National Defense for the government of Felipe Calderon. He was succeeded 1 December 2012 by Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda. He holds a mast ...

, Mexican Army General * Guillermo García López, Spaniard tennis player * Guillermo Rodríguez González, Spanish archer * Guillermo Lasso (born 1955), Ecuadorian businessman and President of Ecuador * Guillermo Mac Millan (born 1940/1941), retired Chilean urologist * Guillermo Marquez, one of the two baby twins of Dora in Dora the Explorer * Guillermo Morphy, Spanish aristocrat and musicologist * Guillermo Muñoz, Mexican football (soccer) player * Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican National Goalkeeper *

Guillermo Rawson Guillermo Rawson (24 June 1821 – 20 January 1890) was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. In 1862, when he was the Interior Minister of Argentina, he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones, who were on ...

(1821–1890), Argentinian doctor and politician *

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and ''Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and ...

, Cuban boxer * Guillermo Rodríguez (baseball), Venezuelan baseball catcher *

Guillermo Rodríguez (footballer) Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez Pérez (born 21 March 1984) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Sud América. He is nicknamed ''El Pelado'' (in Italian ''il Pelato''). Club career Early career Rodríguez began h ...

, Uruguayan footballer * Guillermo Rodríguez (politician), also known as Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, Ecuadorian politician *

Guillermo Rodriguez (comedian) Guillermo Rodriguez (born January 27, 1971), more commonly known as Guillermo, is a Mexican-American talk show personality who rose to fame while working as a parking lot security guard at the Hollywood Boulevard studios for American late nigh ...

, talk show sidekick for ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' *

Guillermo Solá Guillermo Solá Aravena (July 25, 1929 – February 24, 2020) was a middle- and long-distance runner from Chile. He won the gold medal in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase event at the 1955 Pan American Games. Solá represented his nativ ...

, Chilean distance runner *

Guillermo Vilas Guillermo Vilas (; born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Vilas was the No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977, and won four Grand Slam tournaments, one year-end Masters, nine Grand Prix Super Se ...

, Argentine former tennis player *

Guillermo Viviani Guillermo Viviani Contreras was a Chilean Roman Catholic priest. In the 1920s Viviani ran two organizations; a study circle called El Surco whose objective was to fight for legislation that was favorably to the working class promoting in the way ...

(1893–1964), Chilean Roman Catholic priest and trade unionist *

Luis Madrigal Luis Guillermo Madrigal Gutiérrez (born 10 February 1993) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primera División club FAS. Club career Monterrey He made his senior team debut on October 7, 2011, as a substitute in ...

, a former athlete whose full name is Luis Guillermo Madrigal Gutiérrez

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