Sir Gordon Freeth, KBE (6 August 1914 – 27 November 2001) was an Australian politician and diplomat.

That same year he was selected to row for Australia and won a gold medal in the coxed fours in the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.

With the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force and he flew Beaufort bombers in New Guinea and had been promoted to flight lieutenant by 1945, when he was demobilised.

He actually finished third on the primary vote behind Labor incumbent and minister Nelson Lemmon and the Country Party's Arnold Potts, a hero of both World Wars.

In this role, Freeth made some unfortunate comments about relations with Russia, which in the Cold War atmosphere of the times were interpreted as being somewhat 'soft on communism'.