List of First in India

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List of First in India

Field of Achievement Name of Personality

The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
The first President of INC (Indian National Congress) W.C. Banerjee
The first British Governor General of India Lord William Bentinck (1833-1835)
The first British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren Hastings (1774-1885)
The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning
The first Governor General of Independent India Lord Mountbatten
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General C. Rajagopalachari
of free India
The first man who introduced Printing Press in India James Hickey
The first Indian to join the I.C.S (Indian Civil Services) Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned Morarji Desai
without completing the full term
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General Cariappa
The first Chief of Army Staff Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singh
The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Field Marshal of India S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V.Raman
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna Award Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad

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Field of Achievement Name of Personality

The first Home minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
The first Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of India receive Nobel Prize in Medicine Hargovind Khurana
The first person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kichlu
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hiralal J. Kania
The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)

First in India (Female)

Field of Achievement Name of Personality
The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria
The first woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Governor of a state in free India Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi
The first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav
The first woman President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal

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Field of Achievement Name of Personality

The first woman Airline Pilot Durba Banerjee
The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman President of United Nations Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Director General of Police Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Judge Anna Chandy (1937)
The first woman Chief Justice of High Court Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh)
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice-Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines Sushma Chawla
The first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to receive Nobel (Peace) Prize Mother Teresa
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs. Indira Gandhi
First Wax statue of a Living Indian Mahatma Gandhi (1939)
First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
India’s First University Nalanda University
India’s First Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University
First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan
First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata (1727)

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Sports
Field of Achievement Name of Personality
First Olympic team medal Gold for Hockey at the 1928
First Olympic individual medal Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for
wrestling in 1952
First Formula I race driver Narain Karthikeyan
First Asian Games organized Delhi (1951)
First Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in 1988
First Tennis Grand Slam title Mahesh Bhupati (with Japanese
Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles
category of the 1997 French Open
First Tennis Grand Slam win by a woman Nirupama Vaidyanathan
Grand Slam event Sania Mirza in the 1Singles
Category of the 2005 US Open
First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title Leander Paes in the Singles
category of the 1990
First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title by a woman Sania Mirza
First Cricket Test Match Against England at Lord’s June,
25, 1932
First Cricket Captain CK Nayudu
First Cricketer to score a century Lala Amarnath in 1933 against
England
First Cricketer to score a triple century Vijay Hazare
First Test Cricket hat-trick Harbhajan Singh against Australia
in March 2001
First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win 1983 Cricket World Cup
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in
the world to achieve this feat.)
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first
in the world to achieve this feat.)
First Cricketer to score 100 Test and ODI centuries Sachin Tendulkar

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1) The first university of India ………

2) India's First nuclear Centre ………
3) The first Post Office opened in India………
4) The first deputy Prime Minister of India………
5) The first Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship ………….
6) First Indian who reached South Pole ……….
7) The First Indian Prime Minister who resigned from Office ………
8) First Indian recipient of Oscar Award ……..
9) The first Indian President to Die in office ………
10) The First Indian Missile ……….
11) The first Indian Pilot ………..
12) The first Chief of Naval staff of India ……
13) The first Indian to win Magsaysay Award………
14) The first Indian to win Nobel Prize……..
15) The First Indian Submarine…….
16) The first person to get Paramvir Chakra………
17) The first Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award…..
18) The first president of Indian National Congress …..
19) India's first woman president ……….
20) The first Indian woman ruler ……..
21) The first woman musician of India to get Bharat Ratna …….
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Answers

1) Nalanda
2) Tarapur
3) Kolkata in 1727
4) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
5) I.N.S. Vikrant
6) Col. I K Bajaj
7) Moraji Desai
8) Bhanu Athaiya
9) Dr. Zakir Hussain
10) Prithvi
11) J.R.D. Tata in 1929
12) Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari
13) Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1958
14) Rabindranath Tagore
15) I.N.S. Cauveri
16) Major Somnath Sharma
17) Dr. S Radhakrishnan
18) W.C. Banerjee
19) Smt. Pratibha Patil
20) Razia Sultan on Delhi's throne
21) M.S. Subbulakshmi
22) Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
23) Sarojini Naidu
24) Reita Faria
25) C D Deshmukh

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