Ponce (surname)

Ponce is a surname or part of a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Chilean people

  • Miguel Ponce (born 1971), Chilean football (soccer) player
  • Waldo Ponce (born 1982), Chilean football (soccer) player

Filipino people

  • Juan Ponce Enrile (born 1924), Filipino politician and senator
  • Juan Ponce Sumuroy (fl. 1649-1650), Filipino rebel leader
  • Mariano Ponce (18631918), Filipino physician and leader of the Propaganda Movement

Mexican people

Puerto Rican people

  • Carlos Ponce (born 1972), Puerto Rican actor, singer, and composer
  • Juan Ponce de Leon II (1524–1591), first Puerto Rican to assume governorship of Puerto Rico
  • Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and founder of the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico

Spanish people

  • Antonio Ponce de Santa Cruz, Spanish cartographer, instrument maker and historian.
  • Angel Mario Ponce, first biologically male transgender Ms Universe model
  • Juan Ponce de León (14601521), Spanish explorer and conquistador of the New World
  • Luis Ponce de León (15271591), Spanish poet and Augustinian friar
  • Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León ([?]1720), Spanish colonial officer, interim viceroy of Peru 1716
  • Pedro Ponce de León (15201584), Spanish Benedictine monk, established a school for the deaf

Other people

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