Famous People with Name Stone

Stone Stockton Phillips            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stone Stockton Phillips: Phillips was born in Texas City, Texas and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Victor, was a chemical engineer and his mother, Grace, was a teacher. Stone also has two siblings: a brother Vic, who is chairman of the college of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point and a sister Minta, a radiologist in Greensboro, NC and a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He attended Parkway West High School, where he won so many departmental awards (more than 10) that the school started limiting future students to winning only 2 awards[citation needed]. While attending college at Yale, he was a starting quarterback on the football team and graduated with a degree in philosophy. He was also a member of Yale's Scroll and Key society.

Stoney McGlynn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stoney McGlynn: (May 26, 1872 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - August 26, 1941 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin), was a former professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1906-1908. He would play for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Sly Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sly Stone: is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. Sly & the Family Stone was started in Vallejo, California and eventually had artists from around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Robert Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Stone: is among the most critically well regarded of living American novelists. His work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor.

Oliver Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver Stone: is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, which he participated in as an American infantry soldier, and his work has continued to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially.

Jennifer Lindsay Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jennifer Lindsay Stone: an American actress who currently appears as Harper Evans on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place.Stone's big break came when she was in the pool Cinema's Secondhand Lions alongside Haley Joel Osment. She received a nomination for her role in Seconhand Lions as well as a nomination for her 2005 guest appearance on House M.D. She also guest appeared on Line of Fire and Without a Trace. In February 2007, she joined the main cast of Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place as Harper. She will also be appearing in the new Disney Channel Original Movie Dadnapped. She has been creating YouTube videos with co-star and friend, Selena Gomez.

Rose Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Stone: an African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly & the Family Stone, a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers, Sly Stone and Freddie Stone. She often wore a grey wig while in performance w