Monsieur Hulot (French pronunciation: [məsjø ylo]) is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s through the early '70s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Trafic (1971).

In Trafic, Hulot, the designer of a new camper-car, "struggles valiantly... against the perpetual roadblocks of cars, policemen, bureaucrats and just people".

[1] The name of "Monsieur Hulot" is believed to echo "Charlot," the French name for Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp.

Film critic Michel Chion has written that:Hulot is the guy you recognize because he was in the same barracks as you, even though he never became a close friend.

He develops into a real person only when you bump into him by accident one night... By creating Hulot, Tati aims to re-establish a distance.