Roshal Explained

Roshal is a Jewish surname deriving from he|רש"ל ("Rabbi Shlomo Luria").

Notable people with this surname include:

• Alexander Roshal (1936–2007), a Soviet chess journalist, founder of the magazine 64
• Eugene Roshal, creator of RAR file format for data compression and archiving, and FAR file manager
• Grigori Roshal (1899–1983), a Soviet film director
• Leonid Roshal (b. 1933), a Russian pediatrician

See also

• Roshal (town), a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia