Jill Louise Scott MBE (born 2 February 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. The FIFA technical report into the 2011 Women's World Cup described Scott as one of England's four outstanding players; "[an] energetic, ball-winning midfielder who organises the team well, works hard at both ends of the pitch and can change her team's angle of attack."

At 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 m), Scott was nicknamed "Crouchy" after male international footballer Peter Crouch, who towered over his fellow players to a similar degree. After leaving hometown club Sunderland for Everton in 2006, she contributed to the Blues' FA Women's Premier League Cup win in 2008 and FA Women's Cup victory in 2010. With Manchester City, she won the FA WSL in 2016 and is a three-time winner of the FA Women's Cup and the FA WSL Cup. On the individual level, Scott was voted 2008 FA Players' Player of the Year and 2011 FA International Player of the Year.

Following her retirement from football in 2022, Scott went on to win the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was crowned "Queen of the Jungle".

Scott grew up in Fulwell, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and lived with parents Doreen and Bryan and three siblings, a sister Amanda who is seven years older, a brother Mark who is four years older, and a sister who is nine years younger. She attended Monkwearmouth Comprehensive School.

When Scott was five she would go with her nine year old brother into the back lanes near their house and play football with him and his friends and Scott has commented that "...we spent all of our childhood just in the back lanes, so, if say Wimbledon was on I'd get a tennis racket from somewhere and we'd be playing tennis, if the ashes was on you'd suddenly get a cricket bat and you just went through every sport and event being in the back lanes." At the age of seven she was playing football in a boys team, and played for both a local team and a team at her school and was the only student in year 5 to be on the school football team.

A keen long-distance runner, Scott ran for Sunderland Harriers, winning the North of England Under-13 cross-country title and the Junior Great North Run and at the age of 13, she had to decide between football or running, and chose to concentrate on playing football.

Scott then began playing football for the Boldon CA girls' team in Middlesbrough and later met future England teammates Steph Houghton and Demi Stokes who also played for Boldon. As part of the "Where Greatness Is Made" campaign, plaques honouring Stokes and Scott were installed at the club in 2022. When playing games for Boldon Scott needed to get lifts in a car to attend the games and when she was unable to get a lift, instead of missing the game she would let her mother know that her coach was picking her up at the end of the street and then she would catch a metro train to the location where the match was taking place. At the age of 14 she began playing for the Sunderland Women's team.

After leaving school in 2003, Scott received a BTEC National Diploma in Sport and Exercise Science at Gateshead College. She remained at the college to study for a University of Sunderland foundation degree in sports and exercise development. She also played for the college football team alongside fellow Sunderland and international teammate Carly Telford. After completing her diploma, both Scott and Telford enrolled at Loughborough University to study sport.