diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 2ca9edb79453..5898504668cf 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -6210,12 +6210,6 @@
     githubId = 21953890;
     name = "Tim Digel";
   };
-  desiderius = {
-    email = "didier@devroye.name";
-    github = "desiderius";
-    githubId = 1311761;
-    name = "Didier J. Devroye";
-  };
   desttinghim = {
     email = "opensource@louispearson.work";
     matrix = "@desttinghim:matrix.org";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/consul/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/consul/default.nix
index a51ed1a5c2e7..98f5b7f6b5dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/consul/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/consul/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Python client for Consul (https://www.consul.io/)";
     homepage = "https://github.com/cablehead/python-consul";
     license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-appconf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-appconf/default.nix
index fe81b6122f3c..8812b5dd5333 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-appconf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-appconf/default.nix
@@ -46,6 +46,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://django-appconf.readthedocs.org/";
     changelog = "https://github.com/django-compressor/django-appconf/blob/v${version}/docs/changelog.rst";
     license = licenses.bsd2;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compressor/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compressor/default.nix
index 631929145301..b728fb29660c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compressor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-compressor/default.nix
@@ -81,6 +81,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://django-compressor.readthedocs.org/";
     changelog = "https://github.com/django-compressor/django-compressor/blob/${version}/docs/changelog.txt";
     license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-modelcluster/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-modelcluster/default.nix
index 608c78f8cff4..a2dd8f0f62c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-modelcluster/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-modelcluster/default.nix
@@ -48,6 +48,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/torchbox/django-modelcluster/";
     changelog = "https://github.com/wagtail/django-modelcluster/blob/v${version}/CHANGELOG.txt";
     license = licenses.bsd2;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-taggit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-taggit/default.nix
index b6c3e021185c..97e717ed2497 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-taggit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-taggit/default.nix
@@ -45,6 +45,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/jazzband/django-taggit";
     changelog = "https://github.com/jazzband/django-taggit/blob/${version}/CHANGELOG.rst";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-treebeard/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-treebeard/default.nix
index fa687c99549f..55c771d68731 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-treebeard/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-treebeard/default.nix
@@ -34,6 +34,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://tabo.pe/projects/django-treebeard/";
     changelog = "https://github.com/django-treebeard/django-treebeard/blob/${version}/CHANGES.md";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/djangorestframework/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/djangorestframework/default.nix
index 294c729d0bf7..e1cdd727e8d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/djangorestframework/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/djangorestframework/default.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     changelog = "https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/releases/tag/3.15.1";
     description = "Web APIs for Django, made easy";
     homepage = "https://www.django-rest-framework.org/";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
     license = licenses.bsd2;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch-dsl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch-dsl/default.nix
index e15fd9cb6e1e..d2401bc30882 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch-dsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch-dsl/default.nix
@@ -48,6 +48,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py";
     changelog = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py/blob/v${version}/Changelog.rst";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch/default.nix
index f545d9135b44..0d745fa389d0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elasticsearch/default.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py";
     changelog = "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/releases/tag/v${version}";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/falcon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/falcon/default.nix
index 8064c11cc8f5..4315534241dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/falcon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/falcon/default.nix
@@ -93,6 +93,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Ultra-reliable, fast ASGI+WSGI framework for building data plane APIs at scale";
     homepage = "https://falconframework.org/";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypdf2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypdf2/default.nix
index d8bea0dbf51d..367846149147 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypdf2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pypdf2/default.nix
@@ -33,8 +33,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://pypdf2.readthedocs.io/";
     changelog = "https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2/raw/${version}/CHANGELOG.md";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [
-      desiderius
-    ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyrsistent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyrsistent/default.nix
index 57804f9bd150..d64448dad436 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyrsistent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyrsistent/default.nix
@@ -36,6 +36,5 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent/";
     description = "Persistent/Functional/Immutable data structures";
     license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ desiderius ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/willow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/willow/default.nix
index e6678c838087..e4f67b86e6bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/willow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/willow/default.nix
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     changelog = "https://github.com/wagtail/Willow/releases/tag/v${version}";
     license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
-      desiderius
       kuflierl
     ];
   };