diff --git a/admin/MAINTAINERS b/admin/MAINTAINERS
index c8388f74577..68e8881adfc 100644
--- a/admin/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/admin/MAINTAINERS
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ The (co-)maintainers of Emacs are:
 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
 	Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
 	Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
+	Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
+
+(Richard Stallman is one of the Emacs maintainers,
+as well as being the Chief GNUisance to whom
+GNU package maintainers are responsible.)
 
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 1. Areas that someone wants to be maintaining (i.e. has a particularly