Jose Tomas Sanchez (born March 17, 1920) is a Roman Catholic Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy and Cardinal Priest from the Philippines. He was born in Pandan town in the island-province of Catanduanes and attended the seminary of the Holy Rosary in Naga City, where he obtained a doctorate in theology at the University of Santo Tomas of Manila. He was ordained a priest on 12 May 1946.