Ponce (surname)

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