First In India

• President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
• The first Education Minister -  Abdul Kalam Azad
• Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti  Rajgopalachari
• Speaker of loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
• Chairman of  Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar
• President of  National Congress—Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
• President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra
• Chief  Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
• The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - S. Mukherjee
• The first Indian Naval Chief - Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
• First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh
• First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani
• First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
• Governor of  RBI— Sir Osborne Smith
• Space traveller— Rakesh Sharma
• Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950
• Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi
• Novel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore
• Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’— Indira Gandhi
• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
• Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
• Woman Doctorate of  Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)
• Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi
• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976
• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956
• Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy
• Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya
• Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule
• Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee
• Woman to received Nobal Prize— Mother Teresa
• Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
• Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata
• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal
• Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant
• The first person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma
• Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar
• The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics – Amartya Sen
• Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai
• Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji
• Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi
• Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh
• Miss World—Reita Faria in 1966
• Miss Asia Pacific—Zeenat Aman in 1970
• Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen in 1994
• Miss Earth—Nicole Faria in 2010
• Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in 1897
• Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
• Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
• Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
• Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt
• Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760
• Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
• Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita
• Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay
• Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen—Phu Dorjee
• Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal
• Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
• Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh
• Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad
• Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy
• Tennis Grand slam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati
• First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra
• First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar
• The first woman Olympic medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000
• The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Chinese traveller to visit India – Fahein