Backport PR #30926 on branch 1.0.x (DOC: Fix whatsnew contributors section)
Backport PR #30926: DOC: Fix whatsnew contributors section
#30952 should be merged and backported and ci re-run before merging this? That should indeed be backported as well. 
But already merging this, we know the failure, so fine to fix it after merging this (everything else is passing).