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First in India and World
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No.
First in India/World Answer
1 The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2 The first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3 The first Vice-President of Indian Republic Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
4 The first Home Minister of India Vallabbhai Patel
5 The first Railway Minister of Indian John Mathai
6 The first President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee
7 The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji
8 The first Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain
9 The first Defence Minster of India Sardar Baldev Singh
10 The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
11 The first British Governor General of India Lord William
Bentinck(1833-1835)
12 The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata
13 The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria
14 The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi
15 The first British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren
Hasting(1774-1885)
16 The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania
17 The first woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
18 The first woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa
19 The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning
20 The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen
21 The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma
22 The first woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha
23 First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh
24 India's First University Nalanda University
25 The first Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten
26 The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
27 The first woman Governor of a state in free India Sarojini Naidu
28 The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi
29 First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727)
30 First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha)
31 The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of
free India
C. Rajgopalachari
32 The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize
in Medicine
Hargovind Khurana
33 The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
34 The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi
35 The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan
36 The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service Satyendra Nath Tagore
37 The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave
38 The first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
39 The first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi
40 The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India M. Fathima Beevi
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41 lndlas flrsL man ln Space Squadron Leader Rakesh
Sharma
42 The first Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen
43 The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
44 The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court Leela Seth (Himachal
Pradesh High Court)
45 The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without
completing the full term
Morarji Desai
46 The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
47 The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal
48 The first woman Judge Anna Chandy
49 The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India of free
India
General K. M. Cariappa
50 The first Indian Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
51 The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav
52 The first woman President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant
53 The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service
Commission
Roze Millian Bathew
54 1he flrsL lndlan Member of Lhe vlceroys execuLlve
council
Sir S.P.Sinha
55 The first Indian Air Chief Marshal Air Marshall S. Mukherjee
56 The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal
57 The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Sucheta Kripalani
58 The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain
59 The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad
60 The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva
Mavalankar
61 The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari in the
year 2000
62 The first woman President of United Nations General
Assembly
Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
63 The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the
Parliament
Charan Singh
64 The first Field Marshal of India Gen. Sam Manekshaw
65 The first Indian to receive Jnanpith award G. Sankara Kurup
66 The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V.Raman
67 The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. V.
Raman and S.
Radhakrishnan
68 First Olympic Gold In Hockey in the year 1928
69 First Individual Olympic medal K.D. Jadhav in wrestling in
the year 1952
70 First Formula-I race driver Narain Karthikeyan
71 India's first Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in
1988
72 First indian to win FIDE World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand
73 First Chief of Army Staff General Maharaja
Rajendra Singhji
74 First Railway started in the year 1853
75 Postal stamp was first issued in the year 1825
76 First Woman Airline Pilot Durba Banerjee
77 First man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen Phu Dorjee
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78 First indigenously built submarine of India Shalki
79 First woman Chief Election Commissioner of India Rama Devi
80 First woman speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar
81 First indian woman to win Miss Universe title Sushmita Sen
82 The first Bharat Ratna awardee to become the
President of India
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
83 The first person to be awarded Bharat Ratna
posthumously
Lal Bahadur Shastri
84 The first scientist to be awarded Bharat Ratna C V Raman
85 The first and only industrialist to be awarded the Bharat
Ratna
J R D Tata
86 The first woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi
87 The first Indian to receive the Booker prize Salman Rushdie
88 The first Indian woman to receive the Booker prize Arundhati Roy
89 The first woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
award
Karnam Malleswari
90 The first Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize C V Raman
91 The first Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan Morarji Desai
92 The first winner of Filmfare best actor award Dilip Kumar
93 The first winner of Filmfare best actress award Meena Kumari
94 The first Hindi film to win the National Film award Mirza Ghalib
95 The first recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru award for
International Understanding
U Thant (1965)
96 The first recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian
award
Chandrasekhar Azad
(1995)
97 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaqat Ali
98 The first President of USA George Washington
99 The first President of Chinese Republic Sun Yat Sen
100 The first Prime Minister of England Robert Walpole
101 The first Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie
102 The first man to reach North Pole Robert Peary (USA)
103 The first man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundsen
104 The first man to land on Moon Neil Armstrong
105 The first man in space Yuri Gagarin
106 The first man to scale Mount Everest Edmund Hillary
107 The first man to circumnavigate the World Magellan
108 The first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova
109 The first woman to scale Mount Everest Junko Tabei
110 The first man in space Yuri Gagarin
111 The first animal in space Laika
112 The first person to walk in space Alexie Leonov
113 The first woman to walk in space Svetlana Savitskaya
114 The first space tourist Denis Tito
115 The first woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari
116 The first Indian woman in space Kalpana Chawla
117 The first Indian woman to become Grandmaster Koneru Humpy