| First in India |
| 1. British Governor General of Bengal - | Warren Hastings |
| 2. Governor General of Independent India – | Lord Mountbatten |
| 3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General – | Roy Bucher |
| 4. Cosmonaut – | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| 5. Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India – | Babar |
| 6. Field Marshal – | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| 7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union – | C. Rajagopalachari |
| 8. Indian I.C.S. Officer – | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 9. Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council – | Sri S.P. Sinha |
| 10. Indian to swim across English Channel – | Mihir Sen |
| 11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel – | Miss Arati Saha |
| 12. Man to climb Mount Everest – | Tenzing Norgay |
| 13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen – | Phu Dorjee |
| 14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice – | Nwang Gombu |
| 15. Nobel Prize winner – | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 16. President of Indian National Congress – | W. C. Banerjee |
| 17. President of Indian Republic - | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 18. Talkie Film – | Alam Ara (1931) |
| 19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) – | Indira |
| 20. Viceroy of India – | Lord Canning |
| 21. Woman Minister of Indian Union – | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 22. Woman Chief Minister of State – | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| 23. Woman Governor – | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| 24. Woman President of Indian National Congress – | Dr. Annie Besant |
| 25. Woman Prime Minister – | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| 26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly – | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| 27. Prime Minister of India – | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 28. Muslim President of Indian Union – | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 29. Speaker of Lok Sabha – | G. V. Mavlankar |
| 30. Woman to climb mount Everest – | Bachhendri Pal |
| 31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court – | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| 32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court – | Smt. Leela Seth |
| 33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) – | Kalpana Chawla |
| 34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics - | Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) |
| 35. The First Indian World Chess Champion – | Vishwanathan Anand |
| 36. India’s first paperless Newspaper – | The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
| 37. India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer – | Sonali Banerjee |
| 38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha – | G. M. C. Balyogi |
| 39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness – | Krishna Kant |
| 40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century – | Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) |
| 41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal – | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| 42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor – | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| 43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident – | Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) |
| 44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India- | K.J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| 45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament – | Sania Mirza (2003) |
| 46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship – | Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
| 47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD – | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| 48. The highest individual test scorer of India – | Virendra Sehwag ( 319 runs against Sauth africa) |
| 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times- | Rahul Dravid |
| 50. The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. – | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
| 51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India – | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State – | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) |
| 53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief – | MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| 54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army – | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
| 55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming – | Bula Chaudhury |
| 56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force’s first woman Air Marshal – | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| 57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years – | Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) |
| 58. India’s first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title – | Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
| 59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon – | Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) |
| 60. The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. - | Budhia (May 2006) |
| 61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro – | (Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran |
| 62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole – | Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
| 63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship – | Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) |
| 64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title – | Preeti Desai (2006) |
| 65. The first woman President of the Republic of India – | Pratibha Patil |
| First person in india |
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| ● First Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
| ● Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
| ● Chief of the Indian Armed Forces—General K. M. Carriappa |
| ● Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| ● President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| ● Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan |
| ● Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| ● Non-Congress Prime-Minister—Atal Behari Bajpai |
| ● British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings |
| ● Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma |
| ● I. C. S.—Satendra Nath Tagore |
| ● Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen |
| ● Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| ●Novel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| ● President of National Congress—Vyomesh Chand Banerjee |
| ● Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar |
| ● Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen |
| ● Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| ● Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| ● Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim |
| ● Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya |
| ● Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman |
| ● Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| ● Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965) |
| ● Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal |
| ● Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994) |
| ● President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra |
| ● Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) |
| ● Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans |
| ● Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar |
| ● Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Behari Bajpai (1977) |
| ● Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) |
| ● First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee |
| ● Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita |
| ● Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma |
| ● Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi |
| ● Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu |
| ● Indian players played Davis Cup—M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921) |
| ● Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Single (from England) |
| ● Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr. Meghnad Saha |
| ● Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) |
| ● Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) |
| ● Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon |
| ● Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952) |
| ● First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose |
| ● An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram |
| ● Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council—Sir. S. P. Sinha |
| ● Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C. Niogi |
| ● Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh |
| ● Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh |
| ● Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag |
| ● First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh |
| ● First Indian who individually won the Gold medel in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra |
| ● First Indian who won the Bronze medel in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar |
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