Edmund Ponce de Leon
Judge Edmund Ponce de León was the first Hispanic- American to be appointed as a Presiding Judge in the history of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Edmund Ponce de León was originally elected as a Judge from the 6th Subcircuit of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, in November 1996.
He ran for re-election in 2002, 2008 and 2014 county- wide and was retained as a judge.
He retired as a judge in December 31, 2016.
Judge Ponce de León was initially assigned to the Domestic Relations Division, and in 2000 he was assigned to the Law Division, Commercial Section.
Judge Edmund Ponce de León was appointed Presiding Judge of the Fourth Municipal District( District 4 Maywood, Illinois) in 2002.
In 2010 he was appointed Presiding Judge of the County Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
In June 2015, he was assigned to the Law Division hearing jury cases, pre-trial motions and Tax and Miscellaneous matters.
Judge Edmund Ponce de León retired as a judge on December 2016
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 de la Reina, Toledo, Spain, the daughter of Governor Iñigo López de Cervantes y Loayza.
The city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, was named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza.
Derek Mombourquette
Derek Mombourquette( born July 14, 1980) is a Canadian politician.
He represents the district of Sydney- Whitney Pier as a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
Isabel Ponce de León
Isabel Ponce de León( died 1367) was a Spanish noblewoman from the Ponce de Leon family.
Her father was Pedro Ponce de León( Adelantado), lord of Cangas and Tineo, and her mother was Sancha Gil de Chacim.
She was the lady of Villanueva de los Infantes, Castrelo, and Espinosa.
She was a great- great- granddaughter of King Alfonso IX of León, and Pedro Ponce de Cabrera.
Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León( 1474 – July 1521), commonly known as Ponce de León, was a Spanish explorer and" conquistador" known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and the first governor of Puerto Rico.
He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.
Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age.
He first came to the Americas as a" gentleman volunteer" with Christopher Columbus's second expedition in 1493.
By the early 1500s, Ponce de León was a top military official in the colonial government of Hispaniola, where he helped crush a rebellion of the native Taíno people.
He was authorized to explore the neighboring island of Puerto Rico in 1508 and for serving as the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown in 1509.
While Ponce de León grew quite wealthy from his plantations and mines, he faced an ongoing legal conflict with Diego Columbus, the late Christopher Columbus's son, over the right to govern Puerto Rico.
After a long court battle, Columbus replaced Ponce de León as governor in 1511.
Ponce de León decided to follow the advice of the sympathetic King Ferdinand and explore more of the Caribbean Sea.
In 1513, Ponce de León led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area.
He landed somewhere along Florida's east coast, then charted the Atlantic coast down to the Florida Keys and north along the Gulf coast, perhaps as far as Charlotte Harbor.
Though in popular culture he was supposedly searching for the Fountain of Youth, there is no contemporary evidence to support the story, which all modern historians call a myth.
Ponce de León returned to Spain in 1514 and was knighted by King Ferdinand, who also re-instated him as the governor of Puerto Rico and authorized him to settle Florida.
He returned to the Caribbean in 1515, but plans to organize an expedition to Florida were delayed by the death of King Ferdinand in 1516, after which Ponce de León again traveled to Spain to defend his grants and titles.
He would not return to Puerto Rico for two years.
In 1521, Ponce de León finally returned to southwest Florida with the first large- scale attempt to establish a Spanish colony in what is now the continental United States.
However, the native Calusa people fiercely resisted the incursion, and he was seriously wounded in a skirmish.
The colonization attempt was abandoned, and its leader died from his wounds soon after returning to Cuba.
Ponce de León was interred in Puerto Rico, and his tomb is located inside of the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan.
According to John J. Browne Ayes, 30% of the modern population of Puerto Rico descend from Juan Ponce de León and his wife.
Francisco Antonio de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de Léon
Francisco Antonio de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de Léon (27 March 1659 - 3 April 1702) was a Spanish cardinal and member of the Borgia family.
He served as Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1701-1702) and Archbishop of Burgos (1702).
He was born in Sardinia in 1659, where his family had interests.
He was the son of Francisco Carlos de Borja, IX Duke of Gandía, and María Ana Ponce de León, daughter of Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos.
José María Ponce de León
José María Ponce de León (1878–1924) was a Mexican historian and journalist.
He was born in Uruachi, Chihuahua on March 13, 1878 and died in Chihuahua City on March 20, 1924.
He was the son of Don Pedro Ponce de León and Paula Salmón.
Juan Ponce de León II
Juan Ponce de León II( 1524- 1591) was the first acting governor of Puerto Rico to be born on the island.
Alfonso Ponce de León
Alfonso Ponce de León( 10 September 1906 – 29 September 1936) was a Spanish painter and the son of jurist Juan Ponce de León y Encina.
He was also associated with Federico García Lorca's theater group, La Barraca as a scene painter.
In 2001 the Reina Sofia curated a retrospective exhibition of his work.
He was married to fellow painter Margarita Manso.
Associated with the Falange, he was killed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
His most famous work," Autorretrato( accidente)" is housed in the Reina Sofia's permanent collection.
Ruy Pérez Ponce de León
Ruy Pérez
Ponce de León or Rodrigo Pérez
Ponce de León( b.?- d. 1295) was a Spanish noble of the House of Ponce de León, in the service of the Kingdom of Castile.
He was the 15th Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava from 1284 to 1295 under King Sancho IV of Castile and further served as Mayordomo Mayor del Rey from 1293- 1295, also under Sancho IV.

Question: Were both Derek Mombourquette and Juan Ponce De León Ii, born in the same place?
Answer: no