Ponder can refer to:
People:
- 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
- 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)
Other uses:
- Ponder, Missouri, a ghost town
- Ponder, Texas, a town in the United States
- Ponder (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse and 1956 Kentucky Derby winner
- Glen Ponder, a character in the UK comedy series Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Ponder Stibbons, a character from Terry Pratchett's Diskworld series.
- Permanent brain (or "pondering"), the usage of the opponent's time for thinking in turn-based games
- "Ponder", a song by Knuckle Puck from their 2015 album Copacetic