Name the First woman pilot of Indian Navy
Shivangi Hari Bhushan Singh
Born - Muzaffarpur, Bihar
Who has become India's first female military diplomat?
Anjali Singh
IAF officer Avani Chaturvedi became first Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft
solo
First Indian to win a Badminton World Championships gold?
P. V. Sindhu
Who was appointed as the first woman president of any State Cricket Association in
India?
Rupa Gurunath
The world’s first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean and pacific ocean in a light
sport aircraft (LSA)?
Aarohi Pandit
First Civil Servant and IPS officer to Scale 7 Summits’ challenge and also to reach
South Pole?
Aparna Kumar
First Indian Woman Flight Engineer to be inducted by the Indian Air Force ?
Hina Jaiswal
The first woman to head the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)?
Chandrima Shaha
First woman president of Astronomical Society of India
Dr. G. C. Anupama
Who has become the first woman Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia?
Najma Akhtar
Who has become the first female to be appointed as ICC Match Referee?
GS Lakshmi
First woman to perform bike stunts, alongside her male teammates as part
of daredevils on Republic Day?
Captain Shikha Surabhi
First woman to occupy the IMF chief economist post
Gita Gopinath
First Indian shooter to win gold at Youth Olympics ?
Manu Bhaker
India’s First Woman President - Pratibha Patil
India’s First Woman Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi
India’s First Woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi
First Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
First Woman Chief Minister of State - Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh)
First Woman Union Minister - Rajkumari Amrita Kaur (Ministry of Health)
First Woman Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh)
First Woman President of INC - Annie Besant
First Indian Woman President of INC - Sarojini Naidu
First Woman Judge of Supreme Court - Fatima Beevi
First Woman to get Ashok Chakra - Neerja Bhanot
First Indian Woman Ambassador at UN - Vijalakshmi Pandit
First Indian Woman to get Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel - Arati Saha
First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest - Bachendri Pal
First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest twice - Santhosh Yadhav
First Indian Woman to become Miss World - Rita Faria
Youngest girl in India to climb Everest - Malavath Poorna on 25 May
2014 at the age of 13
First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen
First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi
First Indian Woman to get Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi (Prothom Protishrut)
First Indian Woman to win WTA Title - Sania Mirza
First pilot of Indian Airlines in 1956 and the first Indian woman commercial pilot - Durba
Banerjee
(Sarla Thakral was the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft)
First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games - Kamaljeet Sandhu (won gold medal at 1970
Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race)
First Indian Booker Prize winner - Arundhati Roy for her novel The God of Small
Things in 1997
First Indian Woman to go to space - Kalpana Chawla
(Space Shuttle Columbia)
First winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award –
Devika Rani in 1969
First female Jawan in the Army - Shanti Tigga
First Woman Chief Minister to die in Office - Jayalalithaa
First Woman Indian Prime Minister to die in Office - Indira Gandhi
Anandi Gopal Joshi is referred to as the first lady doctor of India
First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal
First Women Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
First woman honours graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886
India's first female train driver in 1988 - Surekha Yadav
First female Chairperson of State Bank of India - Arundhati Bhattacharya
Cornelia Sorabjee - First female advocate in India
First female Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
First female Air Vice Marshal - Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
First female High Court Judge - Anna Chandy
First women speaker of the Lok Sabha - Meira Kumar
First women Chess Grandmaster - Koneru Humpy
First women to Cross Gobi Desert - Sucheta Kadethankar
First women to reach the final of an Olympic event - P T Usha
First women to become IAS officer - Anna Rajam Malhotra
(Isha Basant Joshi was the first woman Indian Administrative Services officer of British India)
First women to win Ramon Magsaysay Award - Mother Teresa
• First woman Managing director of LIC of India : Usha Sangwan
• First woman appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser: Kiran Bedi
• First and the only Indian golfer to participate in Asian Youth Games (2013), Youth
Olympic Games (2014), Asian Games (2014) and Olympic Games (2016): Aditi Ashok
First female Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha - Violet Alva
First female Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha - V.S. Ramadevi
First female Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha - Snehlata Shrivastava
First female Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
• First women Railway Minister of India - Mamata Banerjee
• First female finance Minister of State Government in India - Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in
Punjab Govt
• Fully blind IFS officer - Beno Zephine N L
• Fully blind IAS officer – Pranjal Patil
Anju Bobby George - First Indian Athlete ever to win a Medal in World Championships in
Athletics She Won the Bronze Medal in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics
in Paris.
• Individual Medal Woman at Olympics - Bronze by Karnam Malleswari
• First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics - Nora Polley in the 1924 Summer Olympics
• First female to represent Independent India at the Summer Olympics - Nilima Ghose in the 1952 Summer Olympics
• First woman to compete for India in the Winter Olympic Games : Shailaja Kumar in the 1988 Winter Olympics
• First female flag bearer at the Summer Olympics : Shiny Abraham in the 1992 Summer Olympics
• First female flag bearer at the Winter Olympics : Neha Ahuja in the 2006 Winter Olympics
• First Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics: Dipa Karmakar at 2016 Summer Olympics
2012 - Radhika Menon became India's first Merchant Navy captain
Sonali Banerjee - India’s first woman maritime engineer
First woman teacher in India - Savitribai Phule
•First Woman to hold a Union Foreign Minister's post - Sushma Swaraj
•First Woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian
Bethew
•First Woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora
•First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
• First Indian woman who reached Antarctica - Mahel Moos
• First Indian woman who become an individual member of International Olympic
Committee - Nita Ambani
• First Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peak - Premlata
Agrawal
• First woman amputee to scale Everest - Arunima Sinha
• First Indian woman scientist selected as fellow in London's Royal Society - Gagandeep Kang
• First women defense Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman
• First woman Finance Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman
• First woman DIG in Indian Coast Guard - Nupur Kulshrestha
• Priya Jhingan - The first woman cadet to join the Indian Army
• First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of WHO
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
• First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ priz
Divya Ajith Kumar
• First person to win international bronze medal in skiing
Aanchal Thakur
• First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal
P. V. Sindhu
