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List of first in India (Male)

First Governor of Bengal Lord Clive

First Governor-General of Bengal Warren Hastings
First Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck
First Viceroy of India Lord Canning
First President of Indian National Congress W. C. Banerjee
First Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayab Ji
First Governor General of Independent India Lord Louis Mountbatten
First Indian Governor General of Independent India C. Rajagopalachari
First Indian to pass ICS Exam Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India General K. M. Cariappa
First Indian Noble Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Nath
First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award C. Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan & C. V. Raman
First Field Marshal General S. F. J. Manekshaw
First Indian to swim across the English Channel Mihir Sen
First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award G. Shankar Kurup
First Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Speaker of Lok sabha G. V. Mavlankar
First President of Independent India Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of Independent India Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Prime Minister of Independent India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Home Minister of Independent India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
First Education Minister of Independent India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
First Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
First Indian Air Chief S. Mukherjee
First Chief of Army Staff General M. Rajendra Singh
First Chief of Naval Staff of India Vice Admiral R. D. Katari
First person to get Paramvir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
First Indian Scientist to get Nobel price C. V. Raman
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India Fa – Hien
First Indian to win Magasysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
First Minister to resign from Indian Union Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
First British to visit India John Mildenhall
First Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen
First Chief Justice of India Hiralal J Kania

List of First in India (Female)

First Woman President of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil

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First Woman Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

First Woman Governor of Indian State Sarojani Naidu
First Woman ruler of Delhi Throne Razia Sultan
First Woman IPS Office Kiran Bedi
First Woman Chief minister of Indian State Sucheta Kripalani (UP)
First Woman Union Minister Rajkumari Amrit kaur
First Woman President of Indian national Congress Annie Besant
First Woman Judge of Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
First Woman to get Ashoka Chakra Nirja Mishra
First Indian Woman Ambassador at United Nations Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel Arati Saha Gupta
First Indian Woman to get the Noble Prize Mother Teresa
First Indian Woman to climb the Mount Everest Bachendri Pal
First Indian Woman to become Miss World Reita Faria
First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe Sushmita Sen
First Indian Woman to climb Mt. Everest twice Santosh Yadav
First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi
First Indian Woman to win WTA Title Sania Mirza
First Indian Woman Airline Pilot Durga Banerjee
First Indian Woman president of INC Sarojani Naidu
First Indian Woman to win Booker Prize Arudhanti Roy
First Indian Woman to go into Space Kalpana Chawla
First Woman to get Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi
First Woman Musician to get Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi
First Woman Chief Justice of High Court Leela Seth
First Woman Pilot in Indian Air Force Harita kaur Dayal
First Indian woman to win Olympic Medal Karnam Malleswari
First Woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora

First in India – Science

First hydroelectric plant Sidrapong (Darjeeling)

First Man in Space Rakesh Sharma
First Nuclear Reactor Apsara (Maharashtra)
First satellite Aryabhatta
First successfully indigenous launch vehicle SLV-3
First Genetically modified food product in India Bt. Eggplant Hybrid
First graduate in medicine Surjo Kumar Chakroborty
First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organization (WHO)
First satellite earth station for domestic communications Secunderabad
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V Raman

First in India – Governance

First president of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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First vice-president of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

First president of Indian National Congress Womesh Chandra Bannerjee
First Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru
First Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen
First Viceroy of India Lord Canning
First Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck
First Chief Justice of India H.J Kania
First Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar
First Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabhai Patel
First Chairperson of Lokpal of India Pinaki Chandra Ghose

First in India – Defence

First Defence Minister of India Baldev Singh

First Commander-in-Chief of Free India Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force Subroto Mukherjee
First Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
First Param Vir Chakra winner Major Som Nath Sharma
First female Jawan in the Army Sapper Shanti Tigga
First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi
First cosmonaut Sqn Ldr Rakesh
First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Divya Ajith Kumar
Honour’ prize

First in India – Sports

First Olympics Team Medal Gold in Field Hockey (1928,

Summer Olympics)
First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal Navjot Kaur
First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games medal Saina Nehwal
First Indian woman to win a medal at Asian Games Santhi Soundarajan
First person to win international bronze medal in skiing Aanchal Thakur
First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal P. V. Sindhu in Badminton
First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics Nora Polley, 1924 Summer
Olympics
First Individual Gold Medal won by Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer
Olympics in Beijing
First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling Sakshi Malik Bronze in the 2016
Summer Olympics
First in India – Architecture

First temple constructed from a single rock Kailasa temple at Ellora

First church in India St. Thomas Church, Palayoor
First mosque in India Cheraman Juma Mosque in
Methala
First dam in India Kallanai Dam

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First Indian temple with many interconnected structures Brihadeeswarar Temple, Tamil
Nadu

List of First in India – Frequently Asked in Competitive Exams

First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji

First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727)
First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha)
First Wax statue of a Living Indian Mahatma Gandhi at Madame
Tussaud’s in 1939
India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum P.V.Narasimha Rao
number of votes
India’s First Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University
India’s First University Nalanda University
India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India C. Rajgopalachari
The first British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885)
The first British Governor General of India Lord William Bentinck(1833-
1835)
The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning
The first Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania
The first Chief of Army Staff Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Field Marshal of India S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten
The first Home minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General Cariappa
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council S.P.Sinha
The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)
The first Indian to cross English Channel Mihir Sen
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V.Raman
The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services Satyendra Nath Tagore
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
The first Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria
The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky
The first Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji
The first Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine Hargovind Khurana
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma

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The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen
The first person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee
The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament Charan Singh
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the Morarji Desai
full term
The first Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first woman Air Vice Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman Airline Pilot Durba Banerjee
The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission Roze Millian Bethew
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines Sushma Chawla
The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal
Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Director General of Police Kanchan Chaudhary
Bhattacharya
The first woman Governor of a state in free India Mrs Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Graduates Kadambini Ganguly and
Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Honours Graduate Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman IPS officer Mrs. Kiran Bedi
The first woman Judge Anna Chandy (She became judge
in a district court in 1937)
The first woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora
The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman President of Indian National Congress Mrs Annie Besant
The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi
The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav
The first woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi

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The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi

The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashpurna Devi
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize Mother Teresa

First in World

1. The first person to reach Mount Everest: Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
2. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice: Nawang Gombu
3. The first President of U.S.A: George Washington
4. The first Prime Minister of Great Britain: Robert Walpole
5. The first Governor-General of Pakistan: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
6. First Prime Minister of Israel: David Ben-Gurion
7. The first person to reach the North Pole: Robert Peary
8. The first person to reach the South Pole: Roald Amundsen
9. The first person to sail around the world : Ferdinand Magellan
10. The first religion of the world: Hinduism
11. The first Secretary General of the United Nations: Trygve Lie
12. The First European who visited China: Marco Polo
13. The first European to attack India: Alexander the Great
14. The First US President who visited India: Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. The first U.S. President to resign Presidency : Richard Nixon
16. The First person who landed on Moon: Neil Armstrong
17. The first country to issue paper currency: China
18. The first country to print book: China
19. The first country to prepare a constitution: United States of America
20. The first country to host NAM(Non-Aligned Movement) summit: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
21. The first person to fly an Aeroplane : The Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright)
22. The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space : The Soviet Union (First artificial
satellite Name: Sputnik I)
23. The first country to host the modern Olympics: (Athens) Greece in 1896
24. The first man to compile the Encyclopedia: Aspheosis
25. The first and only player to score test centuries in his first three test matches: Mohd.
Azharuddin(India)
26. The first shuttle to go in space: Space Shuttle Columbia(NASA)
27. The first spacecraft to reach on Mars: Viking landers
28. The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped: Hiroshima (Japan)
29. First man to draw the map of Earth: Anaximander
30. First man to walk in space: Alexei Leonov (Soviet cosmonaut)
31. First human being to travel into space: Yuri Gagarin(USSR)
32. First man to swim across the English Channel: Matthew Webb
33. First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace: Jin F Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Peiry (France)
34. First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics: W.K. Roentgen (Germany)
35. First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry: J.H. Wenthoff (Holland)
36. First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine: A.E. Worm Behrig (Germany)
37. The first country to commence competitive examination: China
38. The first country to win the football World cup: Uruguay
39. The first country to win the cricket World cup: West Indies
40. The first team to win the Women's Cricket World Cup: England (1973)
41. The first team to win the Hockey World Cup: Pakistan

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42. The first cricket team to win the T20 World cup: India (2007)
43. First Asian city to host Olympics: Tokyo
44. First woman to cross the Atlantic in a solo flight: Amelia Earhart
45. First Woman Prime Minister of a country: Sirimavo Bandaranaike
46. First Woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country: Benazir Bhutto
47. First Woman Prime Minister of England: Margaret Thatcher
48. First Woman to climb Mt. Everest: Junko Tabei(Japan)
49. The first female President of the U.N. General Assembly : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
50. First Woman cosmonaut in space: Valentina Tereshkova(Soviet cosmonaut)
51. The first woman who reached Antarctica: Caroline Mikkelsen (Denmark)
52. The first woman who received a Nobel Prize: Marie Curie(For Physics ,1903)
53. First woman to win an Olympic gold: Charlotte Cooper (England)
54. First woman to swim across the English Channel: Gertrude Ederle
55. First woman to win the Man Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens (for The Elected Member)
56. First woman to space walk : Svetlana Savitskaya
57. The first animal to go into space: Laika
58. The first President of Chinese Republic: Sun Yat Sen
59. The first Prime Minister of Pakistan: Liaquat Ali Khan

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