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

Chilean people

Miguel Ponce Miguel Andrés Ponce Torres (born 19 August 1971) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Deportes Iquique. Honours Club ;Universidad Católica * Primera División de Chile Prime ...

(born 1971), Chilean footballer * Waldo Ponce (born 1982), Chilean footballer *

Walter Ponce Walter Benjamín Ponce Gallardo (born 4 March 1998) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Canadian Premier League club Valour FC. Early life He played youth football in the system of Spanish club Granada. In 2013, Ital ...

(born 1998), Chilean footballer

Filipino people

Juan Ponce Enrile Juan Valentin Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr., (born Juanito Furagganan; February 14, 1924), also referred to by his initials JPE, or Manong Johnny, is a Filipino politician and lawyer known for his role in the administration of Philippine dicta ...

(born 1924), Filipino politician and senator * Juan Ponce Sumuroy (fl. 1649-1650), Filipino rebel leader *

Mariano Ponce Mariano Ponce y Collantes (March 22, 1863 – May 23, 1918) was a Filipino physician, writer and active member of the Propaganda Movement. In Spain, he was among the founders of ''La Solidaridad'' and ''Asociación Hispano-Filipino''. Among his ...

(1863–1918), Filipino physician and leader of the Propaganda Movement

Mexican people

Daniel Ponce de León Daniel Ponce de León (born July 27, 1980) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He was a world champion two weight classes, having held the WBO super bantamweight title from 2005 and 2008, and the WBC featherw ...

(born 1980), Mexican professional boxer * Edgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer *

Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from t ...

(in full: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León) (born 1951), President of Mexico 1994–2000 *

Manuel Barbachano Ponce Manuel Barbachano Ponce (April 4, 1925 – October 29, 1994) was a Mexican film producer, director, and screenwriter. A great-grandson of Miguel Barbachano y Tarraso, a five-time governor of Yucatán, he was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. ...

(1924–1994), Mexican film producer, director, screenwriter, and novelist *

Manuel Ponce Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditio ...

(1882–1948), Mexican composer * Miguel Ángel Ponce (born 1989), Mexican footballer *

Sergio Amaury Ponce Sergio Amaury Ponce Villegas (born 13 August 1981) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career He started his career on August 11 for Deportivo Toluca F.C. in 2001 playing against Monterrey, the game had end ...

(born 1981), Mexican football (soccer) player

Puerto Rican people

Carlos Ponce Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...

(born 1972), Puerto Rican actor, singer, and composer *

Juan Ponce de Leon II ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

(1524–1591), first Puerto Rican to assume governorship of Puerto Rico *

Juan Ponce de León y Loayza Juan Ponce de León y Loayza (born San Juan, Puerto Rico) was the son of Juan Ponce de León II (born ''Juan Troche-Ponce de León''), the interim Spanish governor of Puerto Rico in 1579. His mother was Isabel de Loayza born in Villa Talavera ...

, 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. *

Angela Ponce Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Angel ...

, first transgender woman in Miss Universe *

Juan Ponce de León Juan Ponce de León (, , , ; 1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and '' conquistador'' known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and for serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervá ...

(1460–1521), Spanish explorer and conquistador of the New World *

Luis Ponce de León Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

(1527–1591), Spanish poet and Augustinian friar * Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León ( ndash;1720), Spanish colonial officer, interim viceroy of Peru 1716 *

Pedro Ponce de León Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520–1584) was a Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf". Biography Ponce de Leon established a school for the deaf at the San Salvador Monastery in Oña. His ...

(1520–1584), Spanish Benedictine monk, established a school for the deaf

Other people

Cecilia Ludmila Ponce Cecilia Ludmila Ponce, known simply as Ceci Ponce (Buenos Aires Argentina, December 31, 1981), is an Argentine actress. She worked in TV Azteca productions, where most of her characters were antagonistic. Some of her starring at Telenovelas: in 2 ...

, Argentine actress on Mexican Telenovelas *

Cody Ponce Cody Joe Ponce (born April 25, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college b ...

, American baseball player *

Dan Ponce Dan Ponce (born December 7, 1976 in Illinois) is a Chicago television journalist for WGN-TV, radio talk show host on WLS-AM (890) and founder of the a cappella group Straight No Chaser. Career and background Ponce's TV career began in 2005 when ...

, American television journalist *

Ezequiel Ponce Ezequiel Ponce (; born 29 March 1997) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, forward for La Liga club Elche CF, Elche. He also holds Spanish citizenship. Club career ...

, Argentine footballer *

Phil Ponce Phil Ponce (born September 26, 1949) is an American journalist and television presenter. Ponce is notable as a Chicago television journalist who hosts ''Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices'', a weekly television magazine of news and culture in Chicago' ...

, American television journalist *

Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician) Camilo Ponce Enríquez (31 January 1912 in Quito – 13 September 1976) was an Ecuadorian political figure. He served as the 30th President of Ecuador between 1956 and 1960. He was married to Dolores Marta Gracia de Gangotena y Jijón. Po ...

(1912–1976), President of Ecuador 1956–1960 *

Gustavo Ponce Gustavo A. Ponce (born 20 April 1952 in Venezuela) is a Venezuelan mathematician. Education and career Ponce graduated from the Central University of Venezuela with a bachelor's degree in 1976. At the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of ...

(b. 1952), Venezuelan mathematician *

Juan Federico Ponce Vaides Juan Federico Ponce Vaides (26 August 1889 – 16 November 1956) was the acting President of Guatemala from 4 July 1944 to 20 October 1944. He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution. Life ...

(1889–1956), Guatemalan politician, acting president 1944 *

Manuel María Ponce Brousset Manuel María Ponce Brousset (April 5, 1874 in Arequipa, Peru – July 18, 1966 in Lima) who briefly served as the President of Peru in August 1930. After Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro overthrew Augusto B. Leguía's eleven-year dictatorship in Arequ ...

(1874–1966), President of Peru for two days in 1966 * María Ponce de Bianco (1924–1978), Argentine social activist *

Ebontius Ebontius (died 1104), also known as Ebon, Pontius, or Ponce, was Bishop of Barbastro, Spain, after its recapture from the Moors. Born in Comminges, Haute Garonne, France, he became a Benedictine , image = Medalla San Benito. ...

also known as "Poncio", French saint and Bishop of Barbastro {{surname, Ponce Spanish-language surnames French-language surnames