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S.No First in World Male Names

1 First Amercian President to visit India Dwight David Eisenhower
2 First blind man to scale Mount Everest Eric Weihenmayer
3 First Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
4 First Chief of Army Staff General Maharaj Rajendra Singh Ji
5 First country to win football World cup Uruguay
6 First Cricketer to get Padma Bhushan C Naidu
7 First Ethnic-Indian Prime Minister of Fiji Mahendra Choudhary
8 First European invader of Indian soil Alexander, The Great
9 First European to visit china Marcopolo
10 First Field Marshal of India SHFJ Manekshaw
11 First Governor-General of India William Bentinck
12 First Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
13 First Indian Air Chief Marshal Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee OBE
14 First Indian Air Chief Marshal Subroto Mukherjee
15 First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General Cariappa
16 First Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R D Katari
17 First Indian Pilot JRD Tata
18 First Indian to get Grammy Award Pandit Ravishankar
19 First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics CV Raman
20 First Indian to Receive Bharat Ratna Dr Radhakrishnan
Award
21 First Indian to score triple century in Test Virendra Sehwag
Cricket
22 First Indian to swim across the English Mihir Sen
Channel
23 First Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
24 First Judge of International Court of Dr Nagendra Singh
Justice
25 First man to climb Mount Everest twice Nawang gombu
26 First man to climb Mt. Everest Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
27 First man to draw the map on earth Anexemander
28 First man to fly an aeroplane Write Brothers
29 First man to go into space Major Yuri Gagarin
30 First man to hit double century in One Sachin Tendulkar
Day International Match

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31 First man to reach north pole Robert Peary

32 First man to reach south pole Ronald Amundsen
33 First man to set foot on the moon Neil Armstrong
34 First man to walk in space Alexia Leonov
35 First man to win Nobel prize for Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff
Chemistry
36 First man to win Nobel prize for Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen (Neth
Economics
37 First man to win Nobel prize for Literature Sully Prudhomme
38 First man to win Nobel prize for Medical Emil von Behring
39 First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics Wilhelm Röntgen (Germany)
40 First Muslim President of India Dr Zakir Hussain
41 First person of Indian origin to get Nobel Hargobind Khurana
Prize in Medicine
42 First Person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
43 First person to reach Mountt Everest Sherpa Anga Dorjee
without oxygen
44 First person to receive Jnanpith Award G. Sankara Kurup
45 First person to receive Jnanpith Award Sir Shankar Kurup
46 First person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
47 First person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlew
48 First person to sail around the world Ferdinand Magellan
49 First person to stay in Rashtrapati Bhawan Lord Ircoin
50 First President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad
51 First President of the Republic of China Dr Sun Yat-Sen
52 First President of the U.S.A. George Washington
53 First Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole
54 First Prime Minister of India who resigned Morarji Desai
before the full term
55 First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin
tovisit India
56 First secretary general of United Nations Trygve Lie
57 First UN Deputy Secretary General Louise Frechette
58 Governor of Reserve Bank of India Sir Osborne smith
59 Governor-General of independent India Lord Lewis Mountbatten
60 India’s first man in space Rakesh Sharma
61 Pakistan’s first Governor General Mahammed Ali Jinnah
62 President of National Congress Vyomesh Chand Bannerjee
63 Sports person to receive Bhatat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar
64 The First Indian to join ICS Styandra Nath Tagore
65 The First man to introduce printing press James Hicky
in india

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S.No First in World Female Name

1 First woman Air Vice Marshal P Bandopadhyaya
2 First woman Airline Pilot Durga Banerjee
3 First woman Ambassador CB Muthamma
4 First woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner Kamaljit Sandhu
5 First woman chairman of Union Public Service Rose Millian Bethew
Commission
6 First woman Chairperson of Indian Air Lines Sushma Chawla
7 First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Sucheta Kripalani
8 First woman cosmonaut in space Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)
9 First woman Director General of Police Kanchan C Bhattacharya
10 First woman Director General of Police Kanchan C Bhattacharya
11 First woman Governor of a State in free India Sarojini Naidu
12 First woman Honours Graduate Kamini Roy
13 First woman in the world to cross the Strait of Arti Pradhan
Gibralter
14 First woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
15 First woman Judge Anna Chandy
16 First woman Judge in Supreme Court Fatima Beevi
17 First woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee
18 First woman lieutenant Genaral Puneeta Arora
19 First woman Minister in Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
20 First woman Olympic Medal winner Karnaam Malleshwari
21 First woman Pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur dayal
22 First woman President of a country Maria Estela Peron
23 First woman President of Indian National Mrs Annie Besant
Congress
24 First woman President of UN General Assembly Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
25 First woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
26 First woman Prime Minister in the world S Bhandar nayake
27 First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
country
28 First woman Prime Minister of England Margaret Thatcher
29 First woman space tourist Mrs Anousheh Ansari
30 First woman Speaker of a state Assembly Shanno Devi
31 First woman to become Miss World Reita Faria
32 First woman to chair US Central Bank ‘ Federal Janet Yellen
Reserve’
33 First woman to climb Mount Everest Junko Tabei (Japan)
34 First woman to climb Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav
35 First woman to cross English channel Aarti Saha

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36 First woman to reach Antarctica Caroline Michaelson

37 First woman to reach the North pole Mrs Fran Phipps
38 First woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot
39 First woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi
40 First woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi
41 First woman to receive Noble Prize Mother Teresa
42 First woman to set foot on North pole Ann Bancroft, USA
43 First women chief Justice of High Court Leela Seth

S.No First in World Country

1 First City to be attacked with atom bomb Heroshima
2 First country to host the modern Olympic games Greece
3 First Country to issue paper currency China
4 First country to launch Artificial satellite in the space Russia
5 First Country to make a constitution United States of America
6 First Country to make education compulsory Prussia
7 First Country to Print Books China
8 First country to send a man to the moon U.S.A.
9 First country to send human to Moon United States of America
10 First Country to Start Civil Services Competition China
11 First country to win the World Cup Football Uruguay (1930)
12 First Space Ship landed on Mars Viking-I (July.1976)
13 First Space shuttle launched Columbia
14 The first country to host NAM summit Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

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