Notable Former Residents
- Writer Algernon Blackwood, born in Shooter's Hill in 1869
- Landscape painter William Robert Earl died here in 1880
- Singer Boy George lived on Shooter's Hill during his childhood, in a house next to the water tower.
- TV cook Fanny Cradock and her husband Johnnie Cradock lived in Shooter's Hill Road.
- Noted comics writer, Steve Moore has spent his entire life living in the same house he was born in on Shooter's Hill. His life, area and its history were dramatised by Alan Moore's essay Unearthed in an anthology of essays on London edited by Iain Sinclair. Unearthed was later turned into a dramatic reading.
English engineer Samuel Brown developed an internal combustion engine that used hydrogen as a fuel and tested it to propel a vehicle (arguably one of the earliest automobiles) up Shooter's Hill in 1826.
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