diff --git a/doc/credits.rst b/doc/credits.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3fa47ddc691be2679989ff9ad8c3c9287c338439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/credits.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+=========
+ Credits
+=========
+
+Those people are the ones who made Monkeysign possible.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../monkeysign/__init__.py
+   :start-after: credits-start
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index b4b563450bcd02b7e59f29259659cf989de69215..f6955041c489f776303b8f3ea2d54078d5db8b7d 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
    api
    ui-mockups/index
    glossary
+   credits
 
 *   :ref:`genindex`
 *   :ref:`modindex`
 *   :ref:`search`
-
diff --git a/monkeysign/__init__.py b/monkeysign/__init__.py
index 44795e4a0acc7f10a24ca509765e904182a1b800..c4e1dc229ed141c2209ae0922e93123c9ba33594 100644
--- a/monkeysign/__init__.py
+++ b/monkeysign/__init__.py
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ __license__ = """
 
 __website__ = 'http://web.monkeysphere.info/monkeysign'
 __documentation__ = 'http://monkeysign.readthedocs.io/en/' + __version__
+# hack to include the credits in the documentation
+# maybe this should be parsed from a AUTHORS file instead, see
+# https://0xacab.org/monkeysphere/monkeysign/issues/56
+# credits-start
 __authors__ = ['In alphabetical order:',
                '',
                'Antoine Beaupré',