Shirō Sano (佐野 史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Sano lived in Tokyo and Matsue, Shimane as a child, before returning to Tokyo to enter art school.

[1] He joined several theatrical troupes, including Jurō Kara's Jōkyō Gekijō.

He had his first starring role in a film in Kaizō Hayashi's To Sleep so as to Dream in 1986,[2] but gained fame for playing the character Fuyuhiko in the television drama Zutto Anata ga Suki datta in 1992.

[1] He directed his first film, Karaoke, in 1999.