# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julio-ponce-lerou
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:20:44.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julio-ponce-lerou"
name: "Julio Ponce Lerou"
slug: "julio-ponce-lerou"
description: "Julio Ponce Lerou is a Chilean forest engineer and businessman who is the principal shareholder of Soquimich, the largest lithium producer in the world. He is a former son-in-law of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Ponce was president of Chilean state-owned forestry company Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli until 1982 while he was simultaneously president of CELCO, a wood pulp company."
tagline: "Chilean billionaire"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1945-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.3
  momentum:             4.983713355048859
  historical:           5.315878666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Ponce_Lerou"
    title: "Julio Ponce Lerou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "چوليو پونس ليرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%93_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B"
    title: "জুলিও পোন্স লেরো"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulio_Pons_Lerou"
    title: "Hulio Pons Lerou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Ponce_Lerou"
    title: "Julio Ponce Lerou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "خولیو پونسه لرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16585798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump