Terry Gross (born 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. She has a reputation for researching her guests' entire lives and asking them about lesser known aspects of their early careers.

Gross grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. She earned a Bachelor's degree in English and a Master's in communications from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She began a teaching career, but said that she was "totally unequipped" for the job, and was fired after only six weeks.

She began her radio career in 1973 at WBFO, a public radio station in Buffalo, New York, where she had been volunteering. In 1975 she moved to WHYY-FM in Philadelphia to host and produce Fresh Air, which was a local interview program at the time. In 1985, Fresh Air with Terry Gross went national, being distributed weekly by NPR.

It became a daily program two years later. Gross is married to Francis Davis, jazz critic of the Village Voice. The couple has no children.

In an interview with B.D. Wong, Gross said this is a deliberate choice on their part. Because of her short haircut and the number of guests from arts and entertainment (some of whom are gay), Gross said in the introduction to All I Did Was Ask: Conversations With Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists that she is sometimes asked whether she is a lesbian, including one memorable instance where a guest at a social occasion speculated on Gross' sexual orientation to Gross' mother-in-law. In her interview with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, she mentioned that she had lived in a commune.

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