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Amos Lee Ponder (1887–1959), Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court •
Bruce Ponder, Director of and Professor of Oncology at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute •
Christian Ponder (born 1988), starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings football team •
Danielle Ponder, American singer and lawyer •
Elijah Ponder (born 2002), American football player •
Elmer Ponder (1893-1974), Major League Baseball pitcher •
James Ponder (1819–1897), an American merchant and politician •
Patricia Maxwell née Ponder (born 1942), American romance writer •
Samantha Ponder (born 1987), American sportscaster and wife of Christian Ponder •
William Thomas Ponder (1893-1947), American World War I flying ace •
William David Ponder (1855–1933), South Australian politician •
Winston Ponder (born c. 1944), Australian malacologist (studier of molluscs)
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Ponder brothers (William G. Ponder, Ephraim G. Ponder, James Ponder, and John G. Ponder), 19th-century American slave traders ==Other uses==