diff --git a/ansible_mitogen/transport_config.py b/ansible_mitogen/transport_config.py
index ae8a0258..bff27d16 100644
--- a/ansible_mitogen/transport_config.py
+++ b/ansible_mitogen/transport_config.py
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ class PlayContextSpec(Spec):
         return self._play_context.remote_addr
 
     def remote_user(self):
-        return self._play_context.remote_user
+        return self._connection_option('remote_user')
 
     def become(self):
         return self._play_context.become
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 7a25f755..8349e87d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ In Progress (unreleased)
 
 * :gh:issue:`1138` CI: Complete migration from Azure DevOps Pipelines to
   GitHub Actions
+* :gh:issue:`1116` :mod: `ansible_mitogen`: Support for templated variable
+  `ansible_ssh_user`.
 
 
 v0.3.11 (2024-10-07)
diff --git a/docs/contributors.rst b/docs/contributors.rst
index 4e9e58bd..69dc1e76 100644
--- a/docs/contributors.rst
+++ b/docs/contributors.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ sponsorship and outstanding future-thinking of its early adopters.
     <li>jgadling</li>
     <li>John F Wall &mdash; <em>Making Ansible Great with Massive Parallelism</em></li>
     <li><a href="https://github.com/jrosser">Jonathan Rosser</a></li>
+    <li><a href="https://github.com/jmkeyes">Joshua M. Keyes</a></li>
     <li>KennethC</li>
     <li><a href="https://github.com/lberruti">Luca Berruti</li>
     <li>Lewis Bellwood &mdash; <em>Happy to be apart of a great project.</em></li>