Rick Stone is a professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Newcastle Knights of the National Rugby League and previously coached the Fiji team. Stone previously played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, appearing in a handful of first-grade games in the 1989 Winfield Cup premiership. Before joining the Knights, Stone played for and later captain coached the Nambucca Heads Roosters in the Group 2 Rugby League winning two premierships in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, Stone later joined Queensland Cup side Burleigh whom he coached for 13 seasons, winning three premierships during that time. He coached the club to a 6-10 loss against Great Britain in a warm-up match for the 1999 Tri-nations series. Stone started at Newcastle as assistant coach to Michael Hagan. During the 2009 NRL season, Stone's fourth at the Newcastle Knights, the head coach, Brian Smith, resigned. Stone, then assistant coach to Smith, was appointed to the position of coach for the remainder of the season. He enjoyed victory in his first game as head coach of the Knights with a win against the eventual grand final winners Melbourne Storm. 

February 14th, 1967 in (Age 57)