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 Acknowledgments
 ---------------
 
+The fmt library is maintained by Victor Zverovich (`vitaut <https://github.com/vitaut>`_)
+and Jonathan Müller (`foonathan <https://github.com/foonathan>`_) with contributions from many
+other people. See `Contributors <https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/graphs/contributors>`_ and `Releases <https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases>`_ for some of the names. Let us know if your contribution
+is not listed or mentioned incorrectly and we'll make it right.
+
 The benchmark section of this readme file and the performance tests are taken
 from the excellent `tinyformat <https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat>`_ library
 written by Chris Foster.  Boost Format library is acknowledged transitively