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Mary Stone (May 1, 1873 – 30 December 1954), also known as Shi Meiyu (Chinese: 石美玉), was a doctor of medicine graduated from the University of Michigan. She founded the Women and Children's Hospital in Jiujiang.

Born to a Chinese Christian family in Jiujiang on May 1, 1873, Stone's father was a Methodist pastor and mother was the principal of a Methodist school for girls. She attended Rulison-Fish Memorial School, established by American missionary Gertrude Howe, in Jiujiang for ten years. Inspired by the American medical missionary Dr. Kate Bushnell, her father hoped to train her as a medical doctor.

In 1892, she was brought to Ann Arbor, Michigan by Gertrude Howe, together with Ida Kahn (Kang Cheng), for professional training in the west, where she and Kahn became "not only the first Asians to earn degrees at the University of Michigan, but they were also among the first Chinese women ever to become Western-trained physicians" in 1896.