Anna Frederika (Freda) Bage OBE (11 April 1883 – 23 October 1970) was an Australian biologist, university professor and principal and women's activist.

[1] Freda Bage was born on 11 April 1883 to Victoria, a wholesale chemist in Felton, Grimwade & Co., and his wife Mary Charlotte at St Kilda.

Following her father's death in July 1891, Freda's mother took her and her two siblings to England where Bage was enrolled in the Oxford High School for girls.

In 1915, her interest in biology and flora and fauna led her to become president of the Field Naturalists' Club and a founding member of the Barrier Reef committee.

Bage was an original member of the National Art Galleries' Association, the Twelfth Night Theatre and the Brisbane Repertory Society.

Bage was a nature enthusiast, a sponsor of the arts, a motor lover and a member of many women's sport teams.

[1] In addition to the Freda Bage fellowship,[4] a stone grotesque was made of her by sculptor Rhyl Hinwood, and is featured within the University of Queensland Great Court.

Bage would act as driver to visiting Professors, transported ex-servicemen to and from hospitals after World War I, and in her retirement, travelled extensively within Australia.