Ana Estrella Santos (born in Quito) is an Ecuadorian dialectologist and writer.

She is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito.

[1] Estrella obtained a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and General Linguistics at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid.

Since 1998, she has been a researcher and later became the director of the Linguistic Atlas of Ecuador[2] project at the PUCE, a research project in the development phase that aims to map the way Ecuadorians speak solely in the Spanish language.

Estrella received the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit National Literature Prize in 2013,[3] awarded by PUCE, for her book La curiosidad mató al alemán, (Curiosity Killed the German),[4] where she highlighted the role of communication and vindicated the importance of freedom of expression that can be affected by the law in force in the country of Ecuador.