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Guillaume-François Berthier

Guillaume-François Berthier (1704–1782) was a French Jesuit priest, professor, and editor who ran the Journal de Trévoux from 1745 to 1762, opposed the Encyclopédie, and wrote six volumes of the Histoire de l'Église gallicane.

Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1981), also Wëllem, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma; eldest son of Henri and Maria Teresa; Hereditary Grand Duke 2000, Lieutenant-Représentant 2024, acceded by oath 3 October 2025; married Stéphanie de Lannoy.

Guillemet

Guillemet: angle quotation marks « » or ‹ ›, French guillemet, chevron or duckfoot quotes, used in French, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, German; named after printer Guillaume Le Bé; French spacing rules; Unicode U+00AB/U+00BB.

Guillén Fernández

Guillén Fernández is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical neurologist who studies how stress shapes memory, leading Radboud University Medical Center and the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.

Guillermina Lozano

Guillermina Lozano is a geneticist and chair of genetics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for defining p53 as a transcription factor.

Guillermo C. Bazan

Guillermo C. Bazan is a chemist known for conjugated oligoelectrolytes, who taught at UC Santa Barbara from 1998 to 2019 and joined the National University of Singapore in 2020.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and film critic best known for Tres tristes tigres; he won the Cervantes Prize in 1997.

Guillermo Calvo

Guillermo Calvo, born in Buenos Aires in 1941, is an Argentine economist at Columbia University whose 1983 Calvo pricing model became the standard way central banks represent sticky prices.

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro (born 1964, Guadalajara) is a Mexican filmmaker of Cronos, Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Pinocchio, and Frankenstein, known for monsters, practical effects, and 2018 Best Picture and Best Director Oscars.

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is a 2022 Netflix horror anthology miniseries of eight self-contained episodes curated and hosted by del Toro, released October 25-28, 2022, with directors including Jennifer Kent, Panos Cosmatos, and Catherine Hardwicke.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) is a stop-motion animated musical co-directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson for Netflix, adapting Collodi's 1883 tale in fascist Italy; it won the 2023 Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

Guillermo Díaz (actor)

Guillermo Díaz, American actor of Cuban heritage, Huck on Scandal (2012-2018) and Scarface in Half Baked (1998); also Weeds, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Bros; directed Dear Luke, Love Me (2025). Distinct from Spanish dubbing and Colombian radio namesakes.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Guillermo Echevarria

Guillermo Echevarría (Guillermo Echevarría Pérez), Mexican distance swimmer (1948–2021), 1964 and 1968 Olympian, sixth in the 1968 1,500 m freestyle final, and 1,500 m freestyle world record holder (16:28.1, Santa Clara, 7 July 1968).

Guillermo Haro

Guillermo Haro was a Mexican astronomer who co-discovered the Herbig–Haro nebulae, found the first flare stars in the Orion nebula, cataloged thousands of blue stars, and founded INAOE in 1971.

Guillermo J. Tearney

Guillermo J. Tearney is a physician-scientist, pathologist, and physicist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital known for pioneering in vivo optical coherence tomography and the swallowable imaging capsule.

Guillermo Juan Araya

Guillermo Juan Araya, also known as Guillermo Araya, is an Argentine-born computational fluid dynamicist and tenured associate professor at UTSA who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Guillermo Kahlo

Guillermo Kahlo (born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo, 1871–1941), German-Mexican architectural photographer in Pforzheim and Mexico City, father of Frida Kahlo, official photographer of Mexican colonial churches, Casa Boker documenter, builder of Casa Azul.

Guillermo Lasso

Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Ecuadorian conservative banker and president 2021–2023; elected April 2021 over Andrés Arauz, governed without a legislative majority, faced a security crisis and impeachment, and triggered muerte cruzada to dissolve the National Assembly in May 2023.

Guillermo León Valencia

Guillermo León Valencia was a Colombian Conservative politician and diplomat, president of Colombia from 1962 to 1966, whose Operation Marquetalia in 1964 contributed to the birth of the FARC guerrillas.

Guillermo Luengo Egido

Guillermo Luengo Egido is a Spanish family-business executive, grandson of SAMCA patriarch Ángel Luengo, who leads the group's €2 billion Green IT Aragón data center project.

Guillermo Montoya

Guillermo Montoya, born 1967 in Madrid, is a Spanish structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for structures of CRISPR-Cas12a and engineered meganucleases for genome editing.

Guillermo Naylor

Guillermo Naylor (William Brookes Naylor Adie, 1884-1976), Argentine polo player of British background; won gold in men's polo at Paris 1924, playing only the final 15-2 win over France; Argentine Open winner with Santa Inés.

Guillermo Ochoa

Guillermo "Memo" Ochoa (Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña), Mexican goalkeeper born 1985 in Guadalajara; six World Cup squads (2006-2026), 154 caps, starred against Brazil 2014, Germany 2018, Lewandowski's penalty 2022; retired 2026.

Guillermo Oliver

Guillermo Oliver is a developmental and vascular biologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for identifying Prox1 as the first marker of lymphatic endothelial cells.

Guillermo Perez

Guillermo Pérez Sandoval (born 1979, Uruapan, Michoacán) is a Mexican taekwondo athlete who won gold in men's flyweight (under 58 kg) at Beijing 2008, Mexico's first Olympic taekwondo gold, after world silver in 2007; he retired in 2012 and later coached and led Michoacán taekwondo.

Guillermo Prado

Guillermo (Willy) Prado is an American prevention scientist at the University of Miami, known for the Familias Unidas family intervention and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Guillermo Prieto

Guillermo Prieto, pseudonyms Fidel and Don Benedeno, was a Mexican poet, chronicler, and liberal politician (1818–1897) who served in congress for some forty-eight years and was finance minister four times.

Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine software engineer and cofounder and CEO of Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js, which he founded as ZEIT in 2015 after creating Socket.IO and Mongoose.

Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux (El Chacal), Cuban southpaw boxer born 1980 in Santiago de Cuba; double Olympic bantamweight champion (2000, 2004), two-time amateur world champion, and professional WBA/WBO super bantamweight and WBA bantamweight world titleholder.