Ponce (surname) explained

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

Chilean people

• Miguel Ponce (born 1971), Chilean footballer
• Waldo Ponce (born 1982), Chilean footballer
• Walter Ponce (born 1998), Chilean footballer

Filipino people

• Juan Ponce Enrile (born 1924), Filipino politician and senator
• Juan Ponce Sumuroy (fl. 1649-1650), Filipino rebel leader
• Mariano Ponce (1863 - 1918), Filipino physician and leader of the Propaganda Movement

Mexican people

• Daniel Ponce de León (born 1980), Mexican professional boxer
• Edgar Ponce (1974 - 2005), Mexican actor and dancer
• Ernesto Zedillo (in full: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León) (born 1951), President of Mexico 1994 - 2000
• Manuel Barbachano Ponce (1924 - 1994), Mexican film producer, director, screenwriter, and novelist
• Manuel Ponce (1882 - 1948), Mexican composer
• Miguel Ángel Ponce (born 1989), Mexican footballer
• Sergio Amaury Ponce (born 1981), Mexican football (soccer) player

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.
• Angela Ponce, first transgender woman in Miss Universe
• Juan Ponce de León (1460 - 1521), Spanish explorer and conquistador of the New World
• Luis Ponce de León (1527 - 1591), 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 (1520 - 1584), Spanish Benedictine monk, established a school for the deaf

Other people

• Cecilia Ludmila Ponce, Argentine actress on Mexican Telenovelas
• Cody Ponce, American baseball player
• Dan Ponce, American television journalist
• Ezequiel Ponce, Argentine footballer
• Phil Ponce, American television journalist
• Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician) (1912 - 1976), President of Ecuador 1956 - 1960
• Gustavo Ponce (b. 1952), Venezuelan mathematician
• Jorge Elias Ponce, Honduran middle-distance runner
• Juan Federico Ponce Vaides (1889 - 1956), Guatemalan politician, acting president 1944
• Manuel María Ponce Brousset (1874 - 1966), President of Peru for two days in 1966
• Marcelino Ponce Martínez, Vice President of Honduras
• María Ponce de Bianco (1924 - 1978), Argentine social activist
• Ebontius also known as "Poncio", French saint and Bishop of Barbastro