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First in India and World

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The first President of Indian Republic

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

The first Prime Minister of India

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

The first Vice-President of Indian Republic

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

The first Home Minister of India

Vallabbhai Patel

The first Railway Minister of Indian

John Mathai

The first President of Indian National Congress

W.C. Banerjee

The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress

Badruddin Tayyabji

The first Muslim President of India

Dr. Zakir Hussain

The first Defence Minster of India

Sardar Baldev Singh

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The first Indian to win Nobel Prize

Rabindranath Tagore

11

The first British Governor General of India

12

The first Indian Pilot

Lord William
Bentinck(1833-1835)
J.R.D. Tata

13

The first lady to become Miss World

Rita Faria

14

The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna

Mrs Indira Gandhi

15

The first British Governor General of Bengal

16

The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Lord Warren
Hasting(1774-1885)
Justice Hirala J. Kania

17

The first woman judge in Supreme Court

Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

18

The first woman to receive Nobel Prize

Mother Teresa

19

The first British Viceroy of India

Lord Canning

20

The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics

Amartya Sen

21

The first woman Ambassador

Miss C.B. Muthamma

22

The first woman to cross English Channel

Aarti Saha

23

First Judge in International Court of Justice

Dr. Nagender Singh

24

India's First University

Nalanda University

25

The first Governor General of free India

Lord Mountbatten

26

The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

27

The first woman Governor of a state in free India

Sarojini Naidu

28

The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award

Ashapurna Devi

29

First Post Office Opened in India

Kolkata(1727)

30

First Test tube baby of India

Indira (Baby Harsha)

31

C. Rajgopalachari

33

The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of

free India
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize
in Medicine
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award

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The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly

Shanno Devi

35

The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India

Razia Sultan

36

The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service

Satyendra Nath Tagore

37

The first person to receive Magsaysay Award

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

38

The first woman Prime Minister

Indira Gandhi

39

The first woman IPS officer

Kiran Bedi

40

The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India

M. Fathima Beevi

32

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Hargovind Khurana
Acharya Vinoba Bhave

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I dias first

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The first Chief Election Commissioner of India

Squadron Leader Rakesh

Sharma
Sukumar Sen

43

The first woman Minister in a Government

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

44

The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court

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The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without

completing the full term
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra

Leela Seth (Himachal

Pradesh High Court)
Morarji Desai

47

The first woman to climb Mount Everest

Bachhendri Pal

48

The first woman Judge

Anna Chandy

49

General K. M. Cariappa

50

The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India of free

India
The first Indian Chief of Naval Staff

51

The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice

Santosh Yadav

52

The first woman President of Indian National Congress

Annie Besant

53

Roze Millian Bathew

55

The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service

Commission
The first I dia Me er of the Vi ero s e e utive
council
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal

56

The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force

Harita Kaur Dayal

57

The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State

Sucheta Kripalani

58

The first President of India who died while in office

Dr. Zakhir Hussain

59

The first Education Minister

Abdul Kalam Azad

60

The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha

61

The first woman Olympic medal Winner

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The first woman President of United Nations General

Assembly
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the
Parliament
The first Field Marshal of India

Ganesh Vasudeva
Mavalankar
Karnam Malleswari in the
year 2000
Vijaya Laxmi Pandit

65

The first Indian to receive Jnanpith award

G. Sankara Kurup

66

The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics

C.V.Raman

67

The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award

68

First Olympic Gold

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. V.
Raman and S.
Radhakrishnan
In Hockey in the year 1928

69

First Individual Olympic medal

70

First Formula-I race driver

71

India's first Chess Grandmaster

72

First indian to win FIDE World Chess Champion

73

First Chief of Army Staff

74

First Railway started in the year

General Maharaja
Rajendra Singhji
1853

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Postal stamp was first issued in the year

1825

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First Woman Airline Pilot

Durba Banerjee

77

First man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen

Phu Dorjee

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Major Somnath Sharma

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

Sir S.P.Sinha
Air Marshall S. Mukherjee

Charan Singh
Gen. Sam Manekshaw

K.D. Jadhav in wrestling in

the year 1952
Narain Karthikeyan
Viswanathan Anand in
1988
Viswanathan Anand

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First indigenously built submarine of India

Shalki

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First woman Chief Election Commissioner of India

Rama Devi

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First woman speaker of Lok Sabha

Meira Kumar

81

First indian woman to win Miss Universe title

Sushmita Sen

82

The first Bharat Ratna awardee to become the

President of India
The first person to be awarded Bharat Ratna
posthumously
The first scientist to be awarded Bharat Ratna

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

J R D Tata

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The first and only industrialist to be awarded the Bharat

Ratna
The first woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna

87

The first Indian to receive the Booker prize

Salman Rushdie

88

The first Indian woman to receive the Booker prize

Arundhati Roy

89

Karnam Malleswari

90

The first woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

award
The first Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize

91

The first Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan

Morarji Desai

92

The first winner of Filmfare best actor award

Dilip Kumar

93

The first winner of Filmfare best actress award

Meena Kumari

94

The first Hindi film to win the National Film award

Mirza Ghalib

95

U Thant (1965)

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The first recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru award for

International Understanding
The first recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian
award
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan

98

The first President of USA

George Washington

99

The first President of Chinese Republic

Sun Yat Sen

100

The first Prime Minister of England

Robert Walpole

101

The first Secretary General of the United Nations

Trygve Lie

102

The first man to reach North Pole

Robert Peary (USA)

103

The first man to reach South Pole

Ronald Amundsen

104

The first man to land on Moon

Neil Armstrong

105

The first man in space

Yuri Gagarin

106

The first man to scale Mount Everest

Edmund Hillary

107

The first man to circumnavigate the World

Magellan

108

The first woman in space

Valentina Tereshkova

109

The first woman to scale Mount Everest

Junko Tabei

110

The first man in space

Yuri Gagarin

111

The first animal in space

Laika

112

The first person to walk in space

Alexie Leonov

113

The first woman to walk in space

Svetlana Savitskaya

114

The first space tourist

Denis Tito

115

The first woman space tourist

Anousheh Ansari

116

The first Indian woman in space

Kalpana Chawla

117

The first Indian woman to become Grandmaster

Koneru Humpy

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C V Raman

Indira Gandhi

C V Raman

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