Alberto René Methol Ferré (Montevideo, 31 March 1929 – 15 November 2009) was a Uruguayan thinker, writer, journalist, teacher, historian and theologian.

He collaborated with Luis Alberto de Herrera; he worked in the agrarian movement with Benito Nardone; In the sixties he was involved in the leftish political party Unión Popular led by Enrique Erro;[2] he was also an assistant of Líber Seregni in the Broad Front.

He was a staunch supporter of Juan Domingo Perón and he considered himself more a rioplatense historian than a Uruguayan or an Argentinian one.

Between 1975 and 1992 he took part in a pastoral reflection team of the Latin American Episcopal Conference, he was secretary for the laypeople and created courses of the Catholic Church History in Latin America between 1977 and 1982 in Medellín and in Bogotá (Colombia).

[5] In 2007 he published a book with an interview by Alver Metalli which was introduced by then Archbishop of Buenos Aires and later pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio.