Stella Gertrude de Silva (2 June, 1918 - 12 April, 2012), was a medical doctor and paediatrician from Sri Lanka.
[1] De Silva was born in Balapitiya, and attended Prajapathi Vidyalaya, Ambalangoda and the single-sex girls' school, Southlands College, in Galle.
Her older brother encouraged her to pursue tertiary study, and she entered Ceylon Medical College in 1937.
[2] De Silva completed a post-graduate training course in Britain, and from 1959 she served as consultant paediatrician at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Castle Street Hospital for Women and De Soysa Maternity Home.
[2] In 1994, de Silva received the national honour Vidya Jothi for her contributions to science and medicine.