The First in India
The First in India: Male
The First in India: Male |
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| The first President of the Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| The first Vice president of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawaharlal Lal Nehru |
| The first Chief of the Army Staff Gen. | Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| The first Indian to win Noble Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The first Indian to join C.I.S. | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| The first President of the Indian National Congress | W.C Banerjee |
| The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| The first man who introduced the printing press in India | James Hicky |
| The first Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| The first and the last Indian to be Governor-General of free India | C. Rajagopalachari |
| The first British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| The first Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P Sinha |
| India’s first man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
| The first Indian to get a Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V. Raman |
| The first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| The first Indian Crossed English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The First Indian to receive the Jananpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| The first Education minister of India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| The first home minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| The First Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Narendra Singh |
| The first person to receive param veer chakra | Major. Somnath Sharma |
| The first Indian to receive the Magsaysay award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| The first Chief election commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| The first person to receive a Nobel Prize in economics | Amartya Sen |
| The First chief Justice of the Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal. J. Kania |
First in India – Female
| First Indian Lady to become “Miss World” | Rita Faria |
| The first women judge in the Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First Woman Lawyer to become a judge in SC | Indu Malhotra |
| The First women governor of a state in Free India | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| The First woman prime minister | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachendri Pal |
| The First Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The first women chief justice of a high court | Mrs. Leela Seth |
| The first women pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| first female graduates of India | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu |
| first Indian-born female president of the Indian National Congress | Sarojini Naidu |
| first-ever woman in Indian History to be nominated a Rajya Sabha member | Rukmini Devi Arundale |
| the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| First woman chief minister of an Indian state | Sucheta Kripalani |
| Ramon Magsaysay Award | Kamladevi Chatopadhyay |
| first Indian woman to win Gold in the Asian games | Kamaljit Sindhu |
| First female IPS | Kiran Bedi |
| first Asian woman loco-pilot or railway driver | Surekha Yadav |
| first Indian woman to win an Olympic Medal | Karnam Malleshwari |
| First female president of India | Pratibha Patil |
| First female speaker of Loksabha | Meira Kumar |
| first female Indian metro pilot | Priyanka N |
| first woman officer to win a Sena Medal for gallantry | Mitali Madhumita |
| The first woman to receive Ashoka chakra | Neeraj Bhanot |
| first female combat officer commissioned by BSF | Tanushree Pareek |
| first Indian female fighter pilot to fly solo | Avani Chaturvedi
She flew a MiG-21 Bison, a jet aircraft with the highest recorded landing and take-off speed in the world |
| first woman pilot in the Indian Navy | sub-lieutenant Shivangi Joshi |
| India’s youngest female pilot | Ayesha Aziz |
| First Woman Chairperson SAIL | Soma Mandal |
| First Woman President, Indian Olympic Association | PT Usha |
| First Woman Preside, Table Tennis Fed. India | Meghna Ahlawat |
| First Woman Director of CSIR | Nallathambi Kalaiselvi |
| First Woman Combat aviator of the Indian Army | Abhilasha Barak |
| First Woman Judge of Indian Army | Jyoti Sharma |
| First Woman Chairperson of SEBI | Madhavi Puri Buch |
| First Women Chairperson of ONGC | Dr. Alka Mittal |
| First Woman Flight Engineer of the Air Force | Hina Jaiswal |
| India,s First Woman Ambulance Driver | M. Veera Lakshmi |
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