Stone

Categories: Disambiguation | Surnames

Stone can refer to any of the following:

• A rock. See also stone skipping, curling.
• As a verb, to stone, a method of execution using rocks, stoning.
• A gemstone, as used in jewelry.
• A stone is a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds.
• The hard covering enclosing the seed of a drupe such as a peach.
• As a verb, the intoxicating effects of cannabis, as in to be stoned.
• Stone, a Finnish heavy metal band.
• A calculus
• "The Stones" is an informal term for the British rock band The Rolling Stones.
• "Stones" was the name of an early album by Psychadelic Percussion featuring the Moog synthesizer.

The word was taboo in American English for many years leading to its replacement by pit, 14 lbs, boulder, and rock.

Stone is also the name of several places in England:

• Stone, Buckinghamshire
• Stone, Gloucestershire
• Stone, Kent
• Stone, Staffordshire
• Stone, Worcestershire

Stone is the family name of:

• Arthur J. Stone (1847-1938), an American silversmith

• Christopher Stone, the first disc jockey in the UK (1927)

• David Stone (1770-1818), governor of North Carolina (1808-1810)

• Edward Durrell Stone (1902-1978), architect

• Edward James Stone (1831-1897), astronomer

• Elmer F. Stone (1887-1936), US aviator and Commander in the US Coast Guard

• Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946), Chief Justice of the United States

• I. F. Stone (1907–1989), American journalist

• Irving Stone (1903-1989), American author

• John M. Stone (1830–1900), Governor of Mississippi (1876-1882 and 1890-1896)

• John Stone Stone (1869-1943), physicist and inventor

• Jordan Stone (born 1984), an American soccer player

• Joss Stone (born 1987), British soul singer

• Lewis Stone, (1879-1953), actor

• Lucy Stone (1818-1893), women's rights activist

• Marshall Harvey Stone (1903-1989), an American mathematician

• Matt Stone (born 1971), comedian, a co-creator of the TV series South Park

• Merlin Stone, sculptor, author, academic

• Michael Stone:
  • Michael Stone (loyalist paramilitary) (born 1955), Northern Ireland, loyalist paramilitary
  • Michael Stone (Russell murder case), English convicted murderer
  • Michael Stone (politician) (born 1925), English-born U.S. Secretary of the Army

• Mike Stone, American recording engineer and record producer

• Milburn Stone (died 1980), actor

• Oliver Stone (born 1946), U.S. film director

• Peter Stone (1930-2003), writer for theater, film, and television

• Richard Stone (1913-1991), British economist

• Robert Stone (born 1937), American novelist

• Robert Stone (composer) (1516-1613), English composer

• Sharman Stone (born 1951), member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1996

• Sharon Stone (born 1958), U.S. actress
• The members of the Stewart family who performed as part of Sly & the Family Stone:
  • Sly Stone (born 1944), singer-songwriter, frontman
  • Rose Stone (born 1945) singer/keyboardist
  • Freddie Stone (born 1946) singer/guitarist
  • Vet Stone (born 1949) singer

• Steve Stone (footballer) (born 1971), an English football (soccer) player

• Steve Stone (baseball player), (born 1947), former Major League Baseball player and current sportscaster.

• Sumner Stone, typographer

• Thomas Stone (1743–1787), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Maryland

• W. Clement Stone (1902-2002), businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author

• Walter Napleton Stone (1891-1917), an English recipient of the Victoria Cross

• William A. Stone (1846-1820), governor of Pennsylvania (1899-1903)

Fictional characters

• Karl Malden played Lt. Mike Stone in The Streets of San Francisco.
• Harry Anderson played Judge Harold T. Stone in Night Court
• Michael Moriarty played Benjamin Stone on Law & Order

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