Ana Frega Novales (born 1958) is an Uruguayan writer and historian.

In 1979, Frega graduated from the Artigas Institute of Professors [es], in Montevideo, Uruguay as a history teacher. The next year, she began her studies for a bachelor's degree in educational research at the Faculty of the Humanities and Educational Sciences [es] of the University of the Uruguayan Republic and graduated in 1989. She obtained a postgraduate diploma in 1996 from the Faculty of Social Sciences [es], again at the University of the Republic with the thesis Temas de historia económica y social del Cono Sur: Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay en el siglo XX, the monograph of this thesis being Los saladeros en la región platense, 1810–1852.^[1] Frega began her doctoral studies at the University of Buenos Aires in 1996 and obtained her PhD in 2005. She was supervised by José Pedro Barrán [es] and José Carlos Chiaramonte [es].^[2]

Since 1987, Frega has been a professor at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas, teaching National History II and La Plata's regional history since 2008. In 2006, she became a professor of history at the University of the Uruguayan Republic's Faculty of the Humanities and Educational Sciences.^[3]