Cherry Raymond QSO (1 June 1925 – 17 March 2006) was an English-born New Zealand broadcaster, columnist and community worker.

[1][2][3] Born Sylvia Mona Sprigg in Smethwick, Sandwell, England, on 1 June 1925, Raymond was an only child.

[4] Finding employment with the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, Raymond worked first as a receptionist and then as a radio reporter.

From 1964 she was a columnist for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly for 10 years, and in the late 1960s she began her television career, as an interviewer on the current affairs show Close Up, and later as a regular on the New Zealand versions of Personality Squares and Beauty and the Beast.

[5] In October 1974, she stood unsuccessfully as a Values Party candidate for the Auckland Hospital Board.