4. Marcel Marceau
Marceau long had a passion for miming, a fun, and artistic endeavor that later led to popularity and a famed career.
But before he spoke in nothing but body language, Marceau served as a member of the French Resistance. Marceau and his brother, Alain, went about forging documents to save the lives of French children, who otherwise would’ve been susceptible to life in the German labor camps. Even more heroically, Marceau smuggled upwards of 70 Jewish children, posing as a Boy Scout leader and guiding them through the untamed woods to the safe haven of neutral Switzerland.