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@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The BenchmarkTools package is a response to these issues, designed by examining
 
 This package was authored primarily by Jarrett Revels (@jrevels). Additionally, I'd like to thank the following people:
 
-- Frames Catherine White, for authoring the original Benchmarks package, which greatly inspired BenchmarkTools
+- John Myles White, for authoring the original Benchmarks package, which greatly inspired BenchmarkTools
 - Andreas Noack, for statistics help and investigating weird benchmark time distributions
 - Oscar Blumberg, for discussions on noise robustness
 - Jiahao Chen, for discussions on error analysis