diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Generate CONTRIBUTORS.md: contributors.sh
+
+# Tip for finding duplicates (besides scanning the output of CONTRIBUTORS.md for name
+# duplicates that aren't also email duplicates): scan the output of:
+#   git log --format='%aE - %aN' | sort -uf
+#
+# For explanation on this file format: man git-shortlog
+
+Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy <abperiasamy@gmail.com> <ab@unlocksmith.org>
+Harshavardhana <harsha@harshavardhana.net> <harsh@harshavardhana.net>
+AndyPi <andrew.pain@gmail.com> <AndyPi@users.noreply.github.com>
+Joe Acosta <josepha48@gmail.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
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+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+## Contributors
+<!-- DO NOT EDIT - CONTRIBUTORS.md is autogenerated from git commit log by contributors.sh script. -->
+
+- Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy 
+- Andreas Hofmann 
+- Andrew Mann 
+- AndyPi 
+- Anton 
+- archshift 
+- bits3rpent 
+- Daiki Tamada 
+- HackDefendr 
+- Harshavardhana 
+- Joe Acosta 
+- John Lenz 
+- Karl-Philipp Richter 
+- Marco Milanesi 
+- mpoly 
+- pgroenbech 
+- scrivy 
+- Vicent Llongo 
+- Victor Azizi 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d7f5247..dafa719 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,4 +34,25 @@ sudo make install
 sudo modprobe -a 8812au
 ```
 
+## Contributors
+<!-- DO NOT EDIT - CONTRIBUTORS.md is autogenerated from git commit log by contributors.sh script. -->
 
+- Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy 
+- Andreas Hofmann 
+- Andrew Mann 
+- AndyPi 
+- Anton 
+- archshift 
+- bits3rpent 
+- Daiki Tamada 
+- HackDefendr 
+- Harshavardhana 
+- Joe Acosta 
+- John Lenz 
+- Karl-Philipp Richter 
+- Marco Milanesi 
+- mpoly 
+- pgroenbech 
+- scrivy 
+- Vicent Llongo 
+- Victor Azizi 
diff --git a/contributors.sh b/contributors.sh
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index 0000000..5d61644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contributors.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+cd "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$BASH_SOURCE")")"
+
+# see also ".mailmap" for how email addresses and names are deduplicated
+
+{
+	cat <<-'EOH'
+## Contributors
+<!-- DO NOT EDIT - CONTRIBUTORS.md is autogenerated from git commit log by contributors.sh script. -->
+	EOH
+	echo
+	git log --format='%aN <%aE>' | LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sort -uf | cut -f1 -d'<' | sed 's/^/- /g'
+} > CONTRIBUTORS.md