The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), who was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), a founding Member of Australian House of Representatives (1901-1906) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1906–1929).
101st Airborne Division | Football League First Division | NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship | Football League Second Division | Joy Division | 82nd Airborne Division | Texas Ranger Division | Cypriot First Division | Hong Kong First Division League | Football League Third Division | division | Division (military) | USL Second Division | Third Division | The Division | Sylhet Division | United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division | Argentine Primera División | John Higgins | 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament | NCAA Division I Baseball Championship | Faculty (division) | 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | Riding (division) | Kumaon division | John Higgins (snooker player) | Bernardo O'Higgins | Belgian Second Division | 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season | 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season |
Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.