Julie Forrest

Julie Forrest (born 3 November 1968) is a Scottish bowls player who reached a career high ranking of world number two in March 2025. Outdoors she has won three World Outdoor medals, including a silver in the fours at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg and two bronze medals with the Scottish team in the Taylor Trophy. She was selected to represent Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and won the Scottish National Bowls Championships pairs title in 1988 and triples title in 1997, bowling for Hawick. Most of her success has come indoors, where her most significant wins include three World Bowls Tour women's singles titles, two World Bowls women's singles titles, the world indoor women's singles in 2019, 2020 and 2025, and the women's singles at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships in 2022. She is a member of the Teviotdale Indoor Bowls Club in the Scottish Borders and was inducted into the Scottish Borders Hall of Fame in 2007.