Famous People with Name Guillaume

Guillaume Bouzignac            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume Bouzignac: was a French composer. His motets are preserved in two manuscripts.[2] His motets are highly distinctive: "Simply stated, there is no other music of the time that looks the same on the page or sounds the same as the motets of Bouzignac."[3] "One name in this period rises above those of his contemporaries for all sacred music, including Masses: that of Guillaume Bouzignac."[4] His dialogue motets, such as Unus ex vobis and Dum silentium, are small scale oratorios which anticipate Giacomo Carissimi, and then Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) two generations later.

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers: was a French organist, composer and theorist. His first livre d'orgue is the earliest surviving collection with traditional French organ school forms. Nivers's other music is less known; however, his treatises on Gregorian chant and basso continuo are still considered important sources on 17th century liturgical music and performance practice.

Guillaume Burger            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume Burger: is a French sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two medals at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth with a silver in the K-4 1000 m and a bronze in the K-1 4 x 200 m events.

Guillaume Bonnafond            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume Bonnafond: is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondiale. He had excelled at both basketball and cycling as a youth, but eventually concentrated on the later, training with Ag2r-La Mondiale's Chambéry Cyclisme Formation, subsequently joining the squad as an amateur and, from 2009, as a professional.

Guillaume Le Floch            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Guillaume Le Floch: is a French road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Bbox Bouygues Telecom.

Charles Édouard Guillaume            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Charles Édouard Guillaume: s a French-Swiss Physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.

Auriol Guillaume            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Auriol Guillaume: is a French professional football defender, currently with Troyes AC.

Pierre Guillaume            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Guillaume: is a French political activist. He was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the negationist publishing house of the same name.[1] A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and P. Souyiri.

Jean-Guillaume            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Guillaume: was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and politician. After studying in the College Cardinal Lemoine, in Paris, he entered political life at the age of sixteen. He was only seventeen when he successfully defended a man denounced by Joseph Fouché before the revolutionary tribunal of Nevers. From 1793 onwards he was an active agent of the exiled princes: he took part in the Royalist rising in Berry in 1796, and after the 18 Brumaire coup (9 November 1799), under the name of Paul Xavier, he tried to persuade Napoleon Bonaparte to recall the traditional monarchy.

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume: was a French sculptor. Guillaume was a prolific writer, principally on sculpture and architecture of the Classic period and of the Italian Renaissance. He was elected member of the Académie Française in 1898, and in 1891 was sent to Rome as director of the Académie de France in that city. He held this position until 1904. He was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy, London, 1869, on the institution of that class.