Roy Isao Sano (born 1931) is a retired Japanese-American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984. Sano was born on 18 June 1931 in Brawley, California, of Japanese immigrants to the United States. Upon the death of their third child, Roy's parents were converted to Christianity. When Roy was eleven, his family was sent to the Poston War Relocation Center, and then to Pennsylvania under the sponsorship of a Quaker family, where they worked as farm workers. It was during this time that Roy felt a call to the ministry. After World War II the Sanos returned to California, uniting members of their family who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces and those who had served in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is married to Kathleen Thomas-Sano and is the father of three children.