Lieutenant General R Gopal, UYSM, AVSM, SM is a serving General Officer in the Indian Army.

He retired as the Quarter Master General of the Indian Army.

He has extensive experience in Northeast India.

He has held numerous commands including an infantry battalion on the Siachen Glacier; a Mountain Brigade and an Assam Rifles range in South Assam.

He was also one of the founding members of the Defence Command and Staff College at Botswana.