Frederick Pomeroy Palen (April 20, 1872 – December 2, 1933) was a prominent shipping executive.

Frederick Palen was born in Jenningsville, Pennsylvania on April 20, 1872, and educated at Monticello, New York.

Palen took a job as a draughtsman for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, became chief engineer of the Company in 1906, and general manager in 1912; in 1915, he was made a vice president.

After acknowledging before a Senate panel in 1929 that he was responsible for employing William B. Shearer as an observer at the 1927 Geneva arms control conference,[2] however, Palen resigned his position.

Palen died of pneumonia on December 2, 1933, at the Rockefeller Research Institute in New York.