Federico Barreto (1862 in Tacna, Peru - 1929 in Marseille, France) was a Peruvian poet and writer best known for his poetry collection El cantor del cautiverio.

Barreto and his brother José Maria joined a literary circle known as La Bohemia Tacneña, which published a magazine between 1896 and 1898 called Letras.

[2] Barreto and his brother co-directed La Voz del Sur, a newspaper focusing on local coverage of Tacna.

In 1912, he published a poetry collection, Algo mío, which won acclaim and was a great financial success for Barreto, selling out one printing in 1912, and another in 1925.

Based on that he wrote Frente al morro, a novel about life aboard the ship Ucayali, next to which the Peruvian delegation was established in Arica.