Frederick Wilson Popenoe (March 9, 1892 – June 20, 1975) was an American Department of Agriculture employee and plant explorer.
[3]: 8 Afterwards, he worked for the United Fruit Company, where he became the first director of the Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano in Honduras.
Popenoe won numerous awards and received three honorary doctorates, from: Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru; Pomona College; and the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
[6] His brother was agricultural explorer, eugenicist, and marriage counselor Paul Popenoe.
[3] Wilson Popenoe died at Antigua Guatemala and is buried in the San Lazaro Cemetery there.