1911 in Australia

Births

7 January – Mervyn Waite (died 1985), cricketer
11 January – Nora Heysen (died 2003), artist
21 January – Dick Garrard (died 2003), Olympic wrestler
2 February – Jack Pizzey (died 1968), Premier of Queensland (1968)
16 February – Hal Porter (died 1984), author and playwright
1 March – Ian Mudie (died 1976), poet
12 March – Ainslie Roberts (died 1993), artist
13 March – Dorothy Tangney (died 1985), first female Senator
18 March – Deverick John Cronin (died 1979), Australian rules football player
14 April – Reginald Swartz (died 2006), soldier and politician
22 April – Max Dupain (died 1992), photographer
25 April – Leonard Long, artist
4 June – Alan Walker (died 2002), theologian
21 June – Chester Wilmot (died 1954), war correspondent
5 July – Haydn Bunton, Sr (died 1955), Australian Rules footballer (Fitzroy)
7 July – Keith Jones, surgeon
27 August – Bluey Wilkinson (died 1940), speedway rider
9 September – John Gorton (died 2002), 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1968–1971)
16 September – Wilfred Burchett (died 1983), journalist and alleged KGB agent
21 September – Afferbeck Lauder (Alastair Ardoch Morrison, died 1998), author of Let's Talk Strine
22 September – George Bennett, Australian Rules footballer
29 September – Charles Court (died 2007), Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982)
14 October – Marcus Loane, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia
1 November – Samuel Warren Carey (died 2002), geologist
8 November – Robert Gillman Allen Jackson (died 1991), United Nations administrator