Raymond Sarif Easmon (15 January 1913[1] – 2 May 1997) was a prominent Sierra Leonean doctor known for his acclaimed literary work and political agitation.

R. Sarif Easmon was educated at Prince of Wales School, Freetown, and subsequently in England at the University of Durham, where he had a brilliant academic career and won awards in biology and anatomy and qualified as a doctor at the age of 23,[2] and at the University of Liverpool (Diploma in Tropical Medicine).

Easmon criticized the rampant political corruption that occurred during the period and in 1970 was arrested and detained (1970–71)[1] for his opposition to the government.

Easmon's play Dear Parent and Ogre, first produced by Wole Soyinka in Lagos in 1961, won the Encounter Magazine prize.

In the words of Simon Gikandi: "Easmon's plays are semi-comical commentaries on politics and culture in a community undergoing the birth throes of independence and corruption in the institutions of government.