Joan Rafferty Robins OBE (23 November 1908 – 7 April 1994) was a British television personality and author, best known for her cookery programmes.
Born in Battersea, in London, as Joan Godfrey, she was brought up in a Catholic family and was educated at a convent school in Norwich.
She was also involved in setting up soup kitchens in areas which had been heavily bombed, such as Coventry and Southampton.
She regularly appears on Woman's Hour, and from 1959 to 1962 was president of the National Council of Women of Great Britain.
In a profile, The Guardian claimed that "...she is no crusader about anything, and Joan Robins is so effective precisely because she has neither a sense of mission nor is she didactic.