Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

A Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian who built parallel careers in French and English, becoming, by some measures, the most popular comedian in France while also touring the United States and starring in Hollywood films including Midnight in Paris and Coco. France named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and Quebec made him a knight of its National Order. In 2019 he headlined the Netflix series Huge in France, built around his own outsized celebrity.