First in India : [ Men | Women | Others ]

First in India : Science & Technology

1	First Indian Cosmonaut to go in space	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
2	First Large scale Atomic Reactor of India	Apsara
3	First person to make Printing Press popular in India	James Hicky
4	India’s First Nuclear centre	Tarapur
5	First test tube baby of India	Indira (Baby Harsha)
6	First Indian Pilot	JRD Tata (in 1929)
7	First Indian space Tourist	Santosh George
8	First City to have electricity	Banglore, in 1906
9	First Satellite	Aryabhatta, (April 19, 1975)
10	First Chess Grandmaster	Viswanathan Anand – 1988 (Age – 18)

First Cabinet Ministers

11	First Health Minister of free India	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
12	First woman Cabinet minister of India	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
13	First Defense Minister of free India	Baldev Singh
14	First Education minister of free India	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
15	First Home minister of free India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
16	First Finance Minister of free India	R K Shanmukhan Chetty
17	First Law minister of free India	B R Ambedkar
18	First Commerce minister of free India	C H Bhabha

First In India : Administration & Govt. Service

19	First President of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
20	First Prime Minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
21	First Governor of Bengal	Lord Clive
22	First Vice President of India	Dr S Radhakrishnan
23	First Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr. Zakir Hussain
24	Last Governor of Bengal	Warren Hastings
25	First Governor General of Bengal	Warren Hastings
26	First Governor General of India	Lord William Bentic
27	Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India	Lord Caning
28	First President of Indian National Congress	W C Banerjee
29	First Governor General of Independent India	C Rajgopalachari
30	First Indian to pass ICS	Surendra Nath Banerjee
31	First Indian ICS Officer	Satyendra Nath Tagore
32	First Governor General of Free India	Lord Louis Mountbatten
33	First temporary President of Constituent Assembly	Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha
34	First Indian Judge to International court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
35	First Vice President of Free India	Dr. S Radhakrishnan
36	First speaker of Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vashudev Mavlankar
37	India’s first Lok Sabha member to win from record no of votes	P.V. Narsimha Rao
38	India’s first minister to resign from Union Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
39	India’s first Election commissioner	Sukumar Sen
40	First Muslim president of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayab ji
41	First Chief Justice of India	Justice Hiralal J Kania
42	First Deputy Prime Minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
43	First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office	Morarji Desai
44	First Indian Prime Minister to loose an election	Indira Gandhi
45	First President of India to die in office	Dr Zakir Hussain

First In India : Female

46	The first lady to become Miss World	Rita Faria
47	The first woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
48	The first woman Ambassador	Miss C.B. Muthamma
49	The first woman Governor of a state in free India	Mrs Sarojini Naidu
50	The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Shanno Devi
51	The first woman Prime Minister	Mrs Indira Gandhi
52	The first woman Minister in a Government	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
53	The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
54	The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
55	The first woman President of Indian National Congress	Mrs Annie Besant
56	The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
57	The first woman Graduates	Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
58	The first woman Airline Pilot	Durba Banerjee
59	The first woman Honours Graduate	Kamini Roy, 1886
60	The first woman Olympic medal Winner	Karnam Malleswari, 2000
61	The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner	Kamlijit Sandhu
62	The first woman Lawyer	Cornelia Sorabjee
63	The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly	Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
64	The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
65	The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Roze Millian Bethew
66	The first woman Director General of Police	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
67	The first woman Judge	Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
68	The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court	Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
69	The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India	Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
70	The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
71	The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
72	The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
73	The first woman IPS officer	Mrs. Kiran Bedi
74	The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India	Razia Sultan
75	The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Nirja Bhanot
76	The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
77	The first woman to cross English Channel	Aarti Saha
78	The first woman to receive Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa
79	The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Mrs Indira Gandhi
80	The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashpurna Devi

First in India : Defense

81	First Commander in Chief of Free India	General K M Cariappa
82	First Chief of Air Staff	Sir Thomas Almhirst
83	First Indian Chief of Air Staff	Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee
84	First Chief of Army Staff	Gen M Rajendra Singh
85	First Chief of Naval Staff	Vice Admiral R D Katari
86	First Field Marshal	Gen S F J Manekshaw
87	First female jawan in the Army	Sapper Shanti Tigga
88	First Atomic Submarine	I N S Chakra
89	First Indian Submarine	INS Cauveri
90	First Aircraft carrier Indian Warship	INS Vikrant
91	First Indian missile	Prithvi
92	First medium range missile	Agni
93	First Army Institute of Information technology founded at	Hyderabad

First in India : Prestigious Awards

94	First in India to get Bharat Ratna	Dr S RadhaKrishnan, C Rajgopalachari, C V Raman
95	First in India to nominate himself for Bharat Ratna Award	Jawaharlal Nehru
96	First in India to win Stalin award	Saifffudin Kichlu
97	First in India to win Magsaysay award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
98	First foreigner recipient of Bharat Ratna	Khan Abdul Gaffer Khan
99	First in India to get Jnanpeeth Award	G. Shankar Kurup
100	First in India to get Paramvir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
101	First Indian author to get Anderson Award	Ruskin Bond
102	First Recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award	Devika Rani in 1969
103	First and only Indian to win Nishan-e-Pakistan (highest civilian award of Pakistan)	Morarji Desai in 1990

First in India : Movies

104	First Indian movie	Raja Harischandra by Dadasaheb Falke in 1913 (This was silent movie)
105	First Indian movie with sound	Alam Ara by Ardshir Irani in year 1931
106	First color movie	Kisan Kanya by Ardshir Irani in year 1937
107	First Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film	Mother India (1957)

First in India : Visitors & Travelers

108	First foreign visitor to India	Megasthenses (Visited Maurya Court in 305 BC)
109	First Chinese pilgrim to visit India	Fa-hein in year 399 AD
110	First Muslim visitor/traveler to India	Al Beruni in year 1000 AD
111	First European to visit India	Marcopolo (Italian) in 1288 AD
112	First Italian to visit India	Marcopolo in 1288 AD
113	First Moroccan to visit India	Ibn Batuta in 1333 AD
114	First Russian to visit India	Afanasy Nikitin in 1469 AD
115	First Portuguese to visit India	Domingo Paes in 1520 AD
116	First British to visit India	William Hawkins in 1609 AD
117	First American President to visit India	Dwight David Eisenhower
118	First British Prime Minister to visit India	Harold McMillan
119	The first European invader on Indian Soil	Alexander the Great
120	The first President of the USA to visit India	D. Eisenhower
121	The first Soviet Prime Minister to visit India	V.I. Bulganin

First in India : Noble Prize

122	First in India(was first Asian also) to get Nobel Prize	Rabindra Nath Tagore (1913)
123	First Indian Scientist to get Noble Prize	C V Raman
124	First Indian scientist to win Noble prize in Physics	S. Chandrashekhar
125	First Indian Scientist to get Noble prize in Medical Science	Dr Hargovind Khurana
126	First Indian to win Noble Peace Prize	Mother Teresa (1979)
127	First Indian born to win Noble Peace Prize	Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
128	First and only Indian to win Noble in Economics	Amartya Sen

First in India : Oscar Awards

129	First in India ever to be nominated at Oscars	Mehboob Khan (Mother India)
130	First Indian recipient of Oscar Awards	Bhanu Athaiya (Gandhi)
131	First Indian to win Oscar for Lifetime Achievement	Satyajit Ray
132	First Indian to win Oscar for Best Original Music Score	A R Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)
133	First Indian to win Noble Peace Prize	Mother Teresa (1979)
134	First Indian born to win Noble Peace Prize	Kailash Satyarthi (2014)
135	First and only Indian to win Noble in Economics	Amartya Sen

First in India : Sports

136	First Cricket Tournament	The Bombay Triangular
137	First Cricket Test Match	Against England at Lord’s (1932)
138	First Cricket Captain	CK Nayudu (1932)
139	First Cricketer to score a century	Lala Amarnath (1933)
140	First Cricketer to score a triple century	Vijay Hazare
141	First Cricketer World Cup Championship	At the 1983 Cricket World Cup
142	First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket	Sunil Gavaskar (in World)
143	First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket	Sachin Tendulkar (in World)
144	First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries	Sachin Tendulkar

First in India : Miscellaneous

145	First Indian to climb Everest without oxygen cylinder	Sherpa Phu Dorji
146	First Indian to swim across English Channel	Mihir Sen
147	First in India to reach North Pole	Sq Ldr Sanjay Thapar
148	First Indian to reach South Pole	Col. J K Bajaj
149	India’s first University	Nalanda University
150	First post office in India	Kolkata (1727)
151	First District with 100 % Literacy	Ernakulam district in Kerala (1990)