diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c07aa61f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
+
+Florian Bruhin
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 9c48bbd99..17cd4f75d 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ Minor features
 add setup.py and PKGBUILD
 add README
 add HACKING
-add AUTHORS
 handle completion for aliases
 keybind should have completion for commands/arguments
 Hiding scrollbars
diff --git a/generate_authors.sh b/generate_authors.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78f4821c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate_authors.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Inspired by herbstluftwm.
+
+cat > AUTHORS  <<EOF
+Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
+
+$(git log   --format="%aN" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | sed 's/^[ ]*[^ ]*[ ]*//')
+EOF