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This is a list of notable Ponceños, people from Ponce, Puerto Rico.Listed here are people who were either born in Ponce or who were not born in Ponce, but who are or were longtime residents of the city – the so-called adopted sons and daughters of Ponce, and known in Spanish as "Ponceñistas".
Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
People from Ponce, Puerto Rico, by occupation (14 C) Pages in category "People from Ponce, Puerto Rico" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Category: People from Ponce, Puerto Rico, by occupation. ... Educators from Ponce, Puerto Rico (1 C, 24 P) L. Lawyers from Ponce (12 P) M. Military personnel from ...
Shortly thereafter, he made his way to a sector of Ponce called "Villa Olga", where he murdered 10 people. [4] The authorities organized what was then the largest manhunt in the history of the island. They placed a bounty on his head of $10,000 ($126,639 in 2023 dollars [5]), either dead or alive, which was a first in the crime annals of Puerto ...
Juan Luis Boscio Desprez (21 June 1896 [3] – 3 September 1980 [4]) was a Puerto Rican merchant and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1961 to 1964. During his tenure as mayor, in 1962, a major shopping mall opened in the city called Centro del Sur which, at the moment of its opening was "the most modern in the Caribbean".
Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn [3] [note 1] (23 May 1869 – ca. 1930) was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1906. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico.
Other Puerto Ricans of Corsican descent who have led notable political careers were Ernesto Ramos Antonini, who was the first President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico and co-founder of the Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico (Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico), [36] Jaime Fuster Berlingeri, an associate justice of ...