Adrian Shooter CBE FREng FIMechE FCILT (22 November 1948 – 13 December 2022) was a British transport executive.

He is best known for leading the newly privatised Chiltern Railways between 1996 and 2011, and for founding the Vivarail engineering company in 2012. A lifelong railway enthusiast, he had many other involvements with railways, both commercial and preserved, including the Ffestiniog Railway, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and his own Beeches Light Railway.

Adrian Shooter was born on 22 November 1948 in London. His father was Reginald Arthur Shooter, a microbiologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, best known for chairing the enquiry into the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom. His mother was Jean Shooter (née Wallace), who was also a doctor. The two had met whilst serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Shooter was educated at Kingswood House School and Epsom College. Having failed his mathematics A-level, he lost his accepted place at the University of Leeds and instead studied mechanical engineering at North Staffordshire Polytechnic.

Shooter joined British Rail in 1970 as a management trainee. By mid-1974 Shooter was a mechanical engineer. He became maintenance engineer at Bletchley Depot in the mid-1970s, then depot manager at Heaton Depot, then moved to Carlisle as area maintenance engineer. He worked on expansion projects at Bournemouth Depot and Selhurst Depot. Shooter became area manager at St Pancras railway station. By 1988 Shooter was the business manager involved in establishment of Red Star Parcels and Rail Express Systems. Before joining Chiltern Railways in April 1994.^{[clarification needed]}

During the privatisation of British Rail he headed up the M40 Trains management buyout consortium that was awarded the Chiltern Railways franchise. Shooter was the first managing director of that franchise in 1996, and went on to become its chairman. In early 1999 three managers of Chiltern Railways, Shooter, Alex Turner and Owen Edgington, sold their controlling stake in Chiltern to John Laing Group for £1.5 million. With the acquisition of John Laing by Deutsche Bahn in 2008, he became chairman of DB Regio UK. He retired from this role in December 2011.

Shooter had introduced the use of driving simulators for training Chiltern Railways' train drivers. During his time at Chiltern he is credited with the doubling of its passenger numbers through innovation and investment in the ambitious development of train services and infrastructure, and overseeing "the strongest growth record of any rail business in Europe". In November 2016 Shooter delivered the annual railway lecture to the Institution of Engineering and Technology on "Innovation and Realism". Shooter was a director of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) between 2001 and 2011. He chaired the organisation in 2007.

Shooter was a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He was chairman of the West Midlands and Oxfordshire region of the Confederation of British Industry, chairman of Bicester Vision, director of Wabtec, and was chair of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership for three-and-a-half years until late-2015. In mid-2011, Shooter had joined the advisory board of the National Railway Museum.