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First Person NAME OTHER IMPORTANT FACTS

Dr Rajendra • President of the Constituent
First President of the Indian
Prasad, 1950 to Assembly (1948-1950)
Republic
1962
• He is also called as the
architect of modern India.
• Chairman of the constituent
assembly.
Pt. Jawahar Lal
First Prime Minister of free India • Chairman of Union
Nehru
Constitution Committee,
Union Powers Committee
and States Committee

• Also Known as Gurudev.

Rabindranath • Wrote National Anthem of
First Indian to win Nobel Prize
Tagore India.

First President of Indian National

W.C. Banerjee
Congress
First Muslim President of Indian Badruddin
National Congress Tayyabji
First Muslim President of India Dr Zakir Hussain
Lord William • Sati system was banned
First British Governor General of
Bentinck (1833- during his regime.
India
1835)
• First Maratha war and
Lord Warren
First British Governor General of second Mysore war
Hasting (1774-
Bengal occurred during his regime
1885)

• Revolt of 1857 happened

during his regime.
• Established 3 universities at
First British Viceroy of India Lord Canning
Calcutta, Madras and
Bombay.

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• Indian Independence Bill

First Governor General of free 1947 was passed during his
Lord Mountbatten
India regime.

• Informally called as Rajaji

First and the last Indian to be
C. Rajgopalachari or C.R.
Governor General of free India

• Conclusiones Philosophicas
The first man who introduced James Hicky was the first book printed in
printing press in India (Bengal Gazette) India.

Satyendra Nath
The First Indian to join the I.C.S
Tagore
First man in Space from India Rakesh Sharma
First Prime Minister of India who
resigned without completing the Morarji Desai
full term
First Indian Commander-in-
General Cariappa
Chief of India
Gen. Maharaj
First Chief of Army Staff
Rajendra Singhji
First Indian to join Viceroy’s
S.P.Sinha
executive council
• He was awarded the Bharat
First President of India who died Ratna.
Dr Zakir Hussain
while in office

First Muslim President of Indian

Dr Zakir Hussain
Republic
• Serving from 28 July 1979
First Prime Minister of India who
Charan Singh until 14 January 1980.
did not face the Parliament

S.H.F.
First Field Marshal of India Manekshaw(1914-
2008)
• For the discovery of Raman
First person to get Nobel Prize in
C.V.Raman Effect or Raman Scattering.
Physics from India

First Indian to receive Bharat • First Vice President of India

Dr Radhakrishnan
Ratna award
First Indian to cross the English
Mihir Sen
Channel

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First Person to receive Jnanpith

Sri Shankar Kurup
award
• Also known as Dadasaheb
The first Speaker of the Lok Ganesh Vasudeva • Speaker of the Constituent
Sabha Mavalankar Assembly of India

First Vice-President of India Dr Radhakrishnan

Maulana Abul
First Education Minister
Kalam Azad
• India's first Deputy Prime
Minister.
• Started Bardoli Satyagarh.
• Chairman of Provincial
Sardar Vallabh Constitution Committee and
First Home Minister of India
Bhai Patel Advisory Committee on
Fundamental Rights,
Minorities and Tribal and
Excluded Areas.

First Indian Air Marshal S. Mukherjee

Vice Admiral
First Indian Naval Chief
R.D. Katari
First Indian Judge of Dr Nagendra
International Court of Justice Singh
First person to reach Mt. Everest Sherpa Ang
without oxygen Dorjee
First person to get Param Vir Major Somnath
Chakra Sharma
First Chief Election
Sukumar Sen
Commissioner
• First person chosen for
First person to receive Magsaysay Acharya Vinoba
Individual Satyagraha.
Award Bhave

First person of Indian origin to Hargovind

receive Nobel Prize in Medicine Khurana
• Visited India during the
First Chinese traveller to visit reign of Gupta emperor
Fahein
India Chandragupta II

First person to receive Stalin • Jalliawala Bagh gathering

Saifuddin Kitchlu
Prize 1919 was held against the

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arrest of Dr Saifuddin
Kitchlu and Dr Satyapal.

• Served as Minister for

The first person to resign from
the Central Cabinet
Industry and Supply in
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru's cabinet
Shyama Prasad
• Founded the Bharatiya Jana
Mukherjee
Sangh, a predecessor to the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), in 1951.

• For his contributions to

First person to receive Nobel
Amartya Sen welfare economics
Prize in Economics

First Chief Justice of Supreme Justice Hirala J.

Court Kania
First Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)

Female

First Indian woman to become

Rita Faria
Miss World
Mrs Meera
First Indian woman judge in
Sahib Fatima
Supreme Court
Bibi
First woman Ambassador from Mrs C.B.
India Muthamma
• She became the first Indian
President of Indian National
First Indian woman Governor of Mrs Sarojini Congress
a state in free India Naidu • Known as the 'Nightingale of
India'

First Indian woman Speaker of a

Shanno Devi
State Assembly
• Full name Indira
Priyadarshini Nehru.
Mrs Indira
• Indo Pakistan war 1971 was
First Indian woman Prime Gandhi (sworn
fought during his regime.
Minister on January 24,
• Imposed National Emergency
1966
from 25 June 1975 to 21
March 1977.

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• Operation Bluestar Started by

her.

First Indian woman Minister in a Rajkumari • As Health minister.

Government Amrit Kaur
First Indian woman to climb
Bachhendri Pal
Mount Everest
First Indian woman to climb
Santosh Yadav
Mount Everest twice
• Started Home league in
First woman President of Indian Mrs Annie India.
National Congress Besant • Theosophical society in Idia.

First Indian woman President of Mrs Sarojini

Indian National Congress Naidu
Mrs
First Indian woman President of
Vijay Laxmi
United Nations General Assembly
Pandit
Kadambini
First Indian woman who got Ganguly and
Graduates degree Chandramukhi
Basu, 1883
First Indian woman Honours Kamini Roy,
Graduate 1886
Karnam
First Indian woman Olympic
Malleswari,
Medal Winner
2000
First Indian woman to win Gold
Kamlijit Sandhu
Medal in Asian Games
Cornelia
First Indian woman Lawyer
Sorabjee
• Head of the Uttar Pradesh
government from 1963 to
1967.
• Part of the subcommittee that
drafted the Indian
First woman Chief Minister of an Mrs Sucheta Constitution.
Indian State Kripalani • Like her contemporaries
Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha
Mehta, she came to the
forefront during the Quit
India Movement.

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First Indian woman Chairman of Roze Millian

Union Public Service Commission Bethew
Kanchan
First Indian woman Director
Chaudhary
General of Police
Bhattacharya
Anna Chandy
(She became the
First woman Judge of India judge in a
district court in
1937)
Mrs Leela Seth
First Indian woman Chief Justice (Himachal
of High Court Pradesh High
Court)
First Indian woman Lieutenant
Puneeta Arora
General
First Indian woman Air Vice- P.
Marshal Bandopadhyaya
• For her novel ‘Pratham
First woman to receive Jnanpith Ashapoorna
Pratisruti ‘in 1965
Award from India Devi

• India's First & Highest

First Indian woman IPS officer Mrs Kiran Bedi (Woman) Ranking Officer

First Indian and last Muslim • 1236 –1240, Slave Dynasty

Razia Sultan
woman ruler of India
First Indian woman to receive
Nirja Bhanot
Ashoka Chakra
First woman to cross the English
Aarti Saha
Channel from India
• Received honours, like
Ramon Magsaysay Peace
Prize 1962 and Nobel Peace
Prize 1979.
• Founded the Missionaries of
Charity, a Roman Catholic
First Indian woman to receive
Mother Teresa religious congregation for the
Nobel Prize
welfare of HIV/AIDS,
leprosy, and tuberculosis
affected People and
Orphanage.
• Born in Skopje (Macedonia)
moved to India in 1930’s.

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• She was canonized

(recognized by the church as
a saint) on 4 September
2016,

First Indian woman to receive Mrs Indira

Bharat Ratna Gandhi
First Indian woman pilot in Harita Kaur
Indian Air Force Dayal
First Indian woman appeared on
Parveen Babi
Time Magazine cover.
• She was brought into life in
“Durga”
the year 1978 by the hands of
India's first test tube baby (Kanupriya
D.r Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Agarwal)

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