List of Famous people who born in 1911

Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Best Art Direction.

John Dudley Ball Jr. was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, judge and barrister who served as the fifth President of Ireland from December 1974 to October 1976. He served as a Judge of the European Court of Justice from 1973 to 1974, Chief Justice of Ireland from 1961 to 1973, a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1973, and Attorney General of Ireland from 1946 to 1948 and from 1951 to 1953.

William Wallace "Wally" Barron was an American Democratic politician in West Virginia. He was the state's 26th Governor from 1961 to 1965.

Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.