diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 08619cb317..6afbeacf51 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-Authors: Jason Lowe-Power
-         Andreas Sandberg
-         Steve Reinhardt
-         Bobby R. Bruce
-
 If you've made changes to gem5 that might benefit others, we strongly encourage
 you to contribute those changes to the public gem5 repository. There are
 several reasons to do this:
diff --git a/TESTING.md b/TESTING.md
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--- a/TESTING.md
+++ b/TESTING.md
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-:Authors: Jason Lowe-Power
-          Sean Wilson
-
 This file explains how to use gem5's updated testing infrastructure. Running
 tests before submitting a patch is *incredibly important* so unexpected bugs
 don't creep into gem5.