Notable Current and Former Residents of Shadwell
- Jane Randolph Jefferson (born 9 February 1721) – Mother of Thomas Jefferson
- Bob Crow (born 13 June 1961) – trade union leader
- Walter Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) — essayist and critic
- Jah Wobble, lived there from early 1980s to mid-1990s — musician and writer
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