diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 3cdb86c9e..21435a2ad 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * rikn00
 * Brian Jackson
 * Mathias Fussenegger
-* Martin Zimmermann
 * Peter Vilim
+* Martin Zimmermann
 // QUTE_AUTHORS_END
 
 Thanks / Similiar projects
diff --git a/scripts/src2asciidoc.py b/scripts/src2asciidoc.py
index fee9135b8..1eb70cb47 100755
--- a/scripts/src2asciidoc.py
+++ b/scripts/src2asciidoc.py
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ def _get_authors():
     """Get a list of authors based on git commit logs."""
     commits = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'log', '--format=%aN'])
     cnt = collections.Counter(commits.decode('utf-8').splitlines())
-    return reversed(sorted(cnt, key=lambda k: cnt[k]))
+    return sorted(cnt, key=lambda k: (cnt[k], k), reverse=True)
 
 
 def _format_block(filename, what, data):