The year 1911 in radio involved some significant events.

• 21 October – The Junior Wireless Club Limited becomes the Radio Club of America at a meeting held in New York City.^[1]
• Wilhelm II, German Emperor, sends Telefunken engineers to West Sayville, New York to erect three 600-foot (180-m) radio towers.^{[citation needed]}
• The first Australian long range (520 km) coastal radio station is established in Sydney.^[2]
• John Ambrose Fleming publishes An Elementary Manual of Radiotelegraphy and Radiotelephony in London.

• 30 January – Hugh Marlowe, American actor (d. 1982)
• 21 June – Chester Wilmot, Australian war correspondent (d. 1954)
• 4 November – David Young, American radio producer, director and actor (d. 1969)^[3]