diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 107ff7d21..53c7027a8 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ Contributors
 
 - Markus Haug <korrat@proton.me>
 
+- Kevin Broch
+
 Translators
 -----------
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e6d4206a7..b313da98a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ CLI command and its behaviour. There are no guarantees of stability for the
 - More file types are recognised:
   - Julia (`.jl`) (#815)
   - Modern Fortran (`.f90`) (#836)
+  - Bazel (`.bzl`) (#870)
 - Display recommendations for steps to fix found issues during a lint. (#698)
 - Add support for Pijul VCS. Pijul support is not added to the Docker image.
   (#858)
diff --git a/src/reuse/comment.py b/src/reuse/comment.py
index 218d2305e..a5dc312d4 100644
--- a/src/reuse/comment.py
+++ b/src/reuse/comment.py
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ class XQueryCommentStyle(CommentStyle):
     ".bbappend": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".bbclass": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".bib": BibTexCommentStyle,
+    ".bzl": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".c": CCommentStyle,
     ".cc": CCommentStyle,
     ".cjs": CCommentStyle,
@@ -758,6 +759,8 @@ class XQueryCommentStyle(CommentStyle):
 
 FILENAME_COMMENT_STYLE_MAP = {
     ".bashrc": PythonCommentStyle,
+    ".bazelignore": PythonCommentStyle,
+    ".bazelrc": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".browserslist": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".clang-format": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".coveragerc": PythonCommentStyle,