Index: author-template.php
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--- author-template.php	(revision 12094)
+++ author-template.php	(working copy)
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@
 	$defaults = array(
 		'optioncount' => false, 'exclude_admin' => true,
 		'show_fullname' => false, 'hide_empty' => true,
+		'orderby' => 'display_name', 'order' => 'ASC',
 		'feed' => '', 'feed_image' => '', 'feed_type' => '', 'echo' => true,
 		'style' => 'list', 'html' => true
 	);
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@
 	$return = '';
 
 	/** @todo Move select to get_authors(). */
-	$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users " . ($exclude_admin ? "WHERE user_login <> 'admin' " : '') . "ORDER BY display_name");
+	$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users " . ($exclude_admin ? "WHERE user_login <> 'admin' " : '') . "ORDER BY " . $orderby . " " . $order ;);
 
 	$author_count = array();
 	foreach ((array) $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT post_author, COUNT(ID) AS count FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND " . get_private_posts_cap_sql( 'post' ) . " GROUP BY post_author") as $row) {