First in India |
| 1. British Governor General of Bengal - | Warren Hastings |
| 2. Governor General of Independent India – | Lord Mountbatten |
| 3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General – | Roy Bucher |
| 4. Cosmonaut – | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| 5. Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India – | Babar |
| 6. Field Marshal – | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| 7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union – | C. Rajagopalachari |
| 8. Indian I.C.S. Officer – | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 9. Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council – | Sri S.P. Sinha |
| 10. Indian to swim across English Channel – | Mihir Sen |
| 11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel – | Miss Arati Saha |
| 12. Man to climb Mount Everest – | Tenzing Norgay |
| 13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen – | Phu Dorjee |
| 14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice – | Nwang Gombu |
| 15. Nobel Prize winner – | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 16. President of Indian National Congress – | W. C. Banerjee |
| 17. President of Indian Republic - | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 18. Talkie Film – | Alam Ara (1931) |
| 19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) – | Indira |
| 20. Viceroy of India – | Lord Canning |
| 21. Woman Minister of Indian Union – | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 22. Woman Chief Minister of State – | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| 23. Woman Governor – | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| 24. Woman President of Indian National Congress – | Dr. Annie Besant |
| 25. Woman Prime Minister – | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| 26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly – | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| 27. Prime Minister of India – | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 28. Muslim President of Indian Union – | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 29. Speaker of Lok Sabha – | G. V. Mavlankar |
| 30. Woman to climb mount Everest – | Bachhendri Pal |
| 31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court – | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| 32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court – | Smt. Leela Seth |
| 33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) – | Kalpana Chawla |
| 34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics - | Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) |
| 35. The First Indian World Chess Champion – | Vishwanathan Anand |
| 36. India’s first paperless Newspaper – | The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
| 37. India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer – | Sonali Banerjee |
| 38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha – | G. M. C. Balyogi |
| 39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness – | Krishna Kant |
| 40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century – | Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) |
| 41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal – | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| 42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor – | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| 43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident – | Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) |
| 44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India- | K.J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| 45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament – | Sania Mirza (2003) |
| 46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship – | Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
| 47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD – | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| 48. The highest individual test scorer of India – | Virendra Sehwag ( 319 runs against Sauth africa) |
| 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times- | Rahul Dravid |
| 50. The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. – | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
| 51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India – | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State – | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) |
| 53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief – | MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| 54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army – | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
| 55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming – | Bula Chaudhury |
| 56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force’s first woman Air Marshal – | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| 57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years – | Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) |
| 58. India’s first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title – | Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
| 59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon – | Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) |
| 60. The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. - | Budhia (May 2006) |
| 61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro – | (Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran |
| 62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole – | Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
| 63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship – | Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) |
| 64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title – | Preeti Desai (2006) |
| 65. The first woman President of the Republic of India – | Pratibha Patil |
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