Doug Stone (born Douglas Jackson Brooks on June 19, 1956) is a country singer from Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

He started to learn guitar from his mother at age five. His mother was also a country singer on the local circuit. Stone's parents were divorced when he was a child and his family moved to Newnan, Georgia when he was 12 years old. As a teenager, Stone performed in skating rinks. Later, he performed in bars while working as a mechanic during the day.

Stone was already in his 30s when Phyllis Bennet saw him performing at the local VFW. Mrs. Bennet met with Doug, offered to develop his career and secure a recording contract. Doug felt he could do this himself, but the two agreed to meet in one year to see if he had done anything.

After a year passed, the two met again and Doug was still playing the local bar scene. Mrs. Bennett and Doug signed an agreement. She then placed him with a producer, Doug Johnson, who was not well known at the time. (Doug Johnson later became a vice-president at Sony, President of Giant Records, and is now associated with Curb Records). Doug Stone, his producer Doug Johnson, and Phyllis Bennet selected songs and recorded the tracks in Atlanta.

Doug Johnson played the project for Sony Music executives. They were impressed by the project and requested a meeting. During the meeting with Sony Music, Stone performed live with a guitar and his vocals. The deal was secured. At the time Doug changed his last name to Stone to avoid confusion with country singer Garth Brooks.

His self-titled debut was released in 1990 and had an immediate and lasting hit with the song "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)," which entered the country Top Five. The album contained three more Top Ten hits: "Fourteen Minutes Old," "These Lips Don't Know How to Say Goodbye," and Stone's first number one, "In a Different Light."

Stone quickly released his second album, I Thought it Was You, in 1991. The album eventually sold over a million copies and featured three Top Five hits: "I Thought it Was You," "Come In Out of the Pain," and Stone's second number one, "A Jukebox With a Country Song."

Shortly before the release of his third album, From the Heart, in 1992, Stone underwent quadruple bypass surgery. Stone was able to recover in time to release his Christmas album The First Christmas that year. Meanwhile, From the Heart landed two more number-one hits in "Too Busy Being in Love" and "Why Didn't I Think of That." In 1993 Stone released his fifth album, More Love, which sold a million copies.

In 1995 Stone released the compilation Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 featuring the new track "Little Houses," which entered the Top Ten. Later that year, after leaving Epic, Stone released Faith in Me, Faith in You with Columbia Records. While the songs "Faith in Me, Faith in You" and "Born in the Dark" were hits, no songs entered the Top Ten. He suffered a heart attack in December 1995, and was nearly killed in a plane crash in 1997 in Robertson County, Tennessee. He eventually left his old label to join Atlantic Records, where he released his 1999 album Make Up in Love, a more pop-oriented album. Declining sales caused him to leave Atlantic Records and he subsequently moved to the independent Audium Entertainment label for 2002's The Long Way. In 2005, on a new label, Lofton Creek Records, Stone released his latest album, In a Different Light.