Ricardo Ulpiano Colóm y Ferrer[a] (3 April 1861 – 13 February 1906) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during part of 1898.
He was the second of two mayors to lead the municipality of Ponce under the Spanish Crown's "Decreto Autonómico para Puerto Rico", whereby Puerto Rico was granted autonomy by Spain.
[6] He was an attorney, a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico, a councilman for the municipality of Ponce, an assistant in the Ponce Fire Department, a director and vice-president of the Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño, and a municipal judge, among the various other positions he held.
He was the sitting mayor of Ponce at the time when the Americans took possession of the city on 28 July 1898.
[10][11] In Ponce there is a street in Urbanización Las Delicias of Barrio Magueyes named after him.