Romanas Arlauskas (11 June 1917 – 22 September 2009) was an Australian chess player of Lithuanian origin who held the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
Arlauskas played at sixth board (+4 –7 =7) in an unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.
[2] At the end of World War II, Arlauskas, along with many other Baltic players (Leonids Dreibergs, Lucius Endzelins, Miervaldis Jurševskis, Leho Laurine, Edmar Mednis, Karlis Ozols, Ortvin Sarapu, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Elmārs Zemgalis, etc.)
escaped to western Europe, just before the advancing Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia or any other persecutions by the Soviet occupation (e.g., those of Vladimirs Petrovs).
He finished 3rd in the 4th World Correspondence Championship (1962–1965) and was awarded the GMC title in 1965.