Roelf Vos (1921 – 2 December 1992)[1] was a Dutch Australian businessman who established a supermarket chain carrying his name initially in Launceston, and later throughout northern Tasmania.

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Vos was involved in the Dutch resistance during the Second World War.

He migrated with his wife and children to Australia in 1951[2] where he initially worked as a labourer on a wage of $19.

[4] Around 1958, he rented a small shop in Launceston,[3] a milk bar which he converted into northern Tasmania's first self-service grocery store.

In 1982, after he suffered two heart attacks,[1] the supermarket operations were sold to Woolworths, which continued to trade under the Vos name for 20 years.