Leo Stanton Rowe (September 17, 1871 – December 5, 1946) was the director general of the Pan-American Union from 1920 to 1946.

[1][2] He was born on September 17, 1871, in McGregor, Iowa, to Louis Rowe and Catherine Raff.

His family moved to Philadelphia and he attended high school and graduated in 1887.

He died on December 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C. when he was struck by a car when crossing a road.

[2][7] A now-digitized transcript at the University of Pennsylvania shows that the suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, Alice Paul, was one of his students, in the class he offered on Municipal Government and Institutions in the United States and Latin America.