Male The first President of Indian Republic The first Prime Minister of free India The first Indian

to win Nobel Prize The first President of Indian National Congress The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress The first Muslim President of India The first British Governor General of India The first British Viceroy of India The first Governor General of free India The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India The first man who introduced printing press in India The first Indian to join the I.C.S Indias first man in Space The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India The first Chief of Army Staff The first Indian Member of the Viceroys executive council The first President of India who died while in office The first Muslim President of Indian Republic The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament The first Field Marshal of India The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award The first Indian to cross English Channel The first Person to receive Jnanpith award The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha The first Vice-President of India The first Education Minister The first Home minister of India The first Indian Air Chief Marshal Dr. Rajendra Prasad Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Rabindranath Tagore W.C. Banerjee Badruddin Tayyabji Dr. Zakir Hussain Lord William Bentinck Lord Canning Lord Mountbatten C. Rajgopalachari James Hicky Satyendra Nath Tagore Rakesh Sharma Morarji Desai General Cariappa Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji S.P.Sinha Dr. Zakhir Hussain Dr. Zakhir Hussain Charan Singh S.H.F. Manekshaw C.V.Raman Dr. Radhakrishnan Mihir Sen Sri Shankar Kurup Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar Dr. Radhakrishnan Abdul Kalam Azad Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel S. Mukherjee

The first Indian Naval Chief The first Judge of International Court of Justice The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen The first person to get Param Vir Chakra The first Chief Election Commissioner The first person to receive Magsaysay Award The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine The first Chinese traveller to visit India The first person to receive Stalin Prize The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court The first Indian Pilot

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari Dr. Nagendra Singh Sherpa Anga Dorjee Major Somnath Sharma Sukumar Sen Acharya Vinoba Bhave Hargovind Khurana Fahein Saifuddin Kitchlu Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Amartya Sen Justice Hirala J. Kania J.R.D. Tata (1929)

Female

The first lady to become Miss World The first woman judge in Supreme Court The first woman Ambassador The first woman Governor of a state in free India The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly The first woman Prime Minister The first woman Minister in a Government The first woman to climb Mount Everest The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice The first woman President of Indian National Congress The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force The first woman Graduates The first woman Airline Pilot The first woman Honours Graduate The first woman Olympic medal Winner The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner The first woman Lawyer

Rita Faria Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi Miss C.B. Muthamma Mrs Sarojini Naidu Shanno Devi Mrs Indira Gandhi Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Bachhendri Pal Santosh Yadav Mrs Annie Besant Harita Kaur Dayal Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 Durga Banerjee Kamini Roy, 1886 Karnam Malleswari, 2000 Kamlijit Sandhu Cornelia Sorabjee

The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission The first woman Director General of Police

Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit

Mrs Sucheta Kripalani

Roze Millian Bethew

Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi Puneeta Arora P. Bandopadhyaya Sushma Chawla Mrs. Kiran Bedi Razia Sultan Nirja Bhanot Ashapurna Devi Aarti Saha Mother Teresa Mrs Indira Gandhi Ashpurna Devi

The first woman Judge

The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India The first woman Lieutenant General The first woman Air Vice Marshal The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines The first woman IPS officer The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award The first woman to cross English Channel The first woman to receive Nobel Prize The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award

First in Others

First Wax statue of a Living Indian

Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939 Fa-hien Bharat Samachar Indrani Rehman W.C. Bannerjee, 1885 Badruddin Tayyabji Dr. Nagender Singh Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty Nalanda University

First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India First Exclusive internet magazine First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe First President of Indian National Congress First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress First Judge in International Court of Justice First Graduate in Medicine India's First University

India's First Open University India's First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes First Indian to reach Antarctica First British to Visit India First Test tube baby of India First Post Office Opened in India

Andhra Pradesh Open University

P.V.Narasimha Rao

Lt. Ram Charan Hawkins Indira (Baby Harsha) Kolkata(1727)

First President of India

Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962) Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964). The first term lasted till 1952 after which he was re-elected. Dr. S Radhakrishan Vallabhbhai Patel India Ghandi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to he Janta Party. Manmohan Singh Giani Zail Singh by Janta Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977-1980)

First Prime Minister of India

First Vice President of India First Deputy Prime Minister of India

First Prime Minister to be voted out of Office

First Sikh Prime Minister First Sikh President

First Non-Congress Government

First Prime Minster of India resigned without completing his full term First Prime Minister to lead a minority

Morarji Desai

government for a full term(five years) First Prime Minster from South India First Governor-General First British Governor-General First British Viceroy of India First Governor General of Independent India First and Last Indian Governor-General of Indian Union First Chief Justice of India First Indian to pass ICS First Indian ICS Officer First Speaker of Lok Sabha First Finance Minister of Independent India

P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 1996

P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 1996 Warren Hastings Lord William Bentick Lord Canning Lord Mountbatten, 1947

C Rajagopalachari, 1948

Justice Hiralal J Kania Surendra Nath Banerjee Satyendranath Tagore, 1863 Shri G.V. Mavlankar Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys

Presentation Independence

of

First

Budget

after

India's

Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys on Nov. 26, 1947

First President to die in Office First Prime Minister who did not face the Parliament First Chief Justice of Supreme Court to become President of India First Education Minister First Home Minister First Chief Election Commissioner First Minister to regin from Union Cabinet

Dr. Zakhir Hussain

Charan Singh

Justice M Hidaytullah

Abul Kalam Azad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sukumar Sen Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)

First Noble Prize Winner

Rabindranath

Tagore

for

the

Noble

Prize

in

Literature,

1913.

He was also the first Asian to get the Prize. C.V. Raman in 1930 Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (Indian Born US Citizen) Mother Teresa in 1979. (Albanian nun, Indian Citizen) Amartya Sen in 1998

First Noble Prize in Physics First Noble Prize in Medicine First Noble Peace Prize First Noble Prize in Economics

First Hydroelectric Plant

On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902 Banglore, in 1906 (it was in fact the first city to have electricity) Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-wide. Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-

First City to have electricity

First Man in Space

First Women in Space

87, She was a

on naturalized

November United States

19,1997 citizen, and

represented the US during the event. First Test-tube baby First Scienfific Expedition to Antarctica First Nuclear Reactor First Genetically Modified Food Product in India First Satellite Durga Agarwal, born 1978 1981 Tarapur, Maharashtra

Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid

Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975

First

Satellite

dedicated

exclusively

for

educational services First Successfully Indigenous Launch Vehicle

EDUSET

SLV-3 Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin Jr of USA (Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin) July 21, 1969

The first person in the world to land on the moon

First man to enter space (or the world's first cosmonaut) The first returnable space shuttle The first disabled satellite repaired in space The first unmanned moon-buggy to explore surface of the moon The first unmanned spaceship to have soft-

Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

Colombia Solar Max

Lunokhod-I (Russia)

landed and lifted off from the moon to return Luna - 16 (Russia) (Sept. 21, 1970) to earth. The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon The first country to send men on the moon The first to launch earth satellite or

Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick named "Eagle"

USA

"artificial baby moon" The first woman cosmonaut of the world The first person to float in space The first American astronaut (and second person in the world) to float in space The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon The first space rocket to hit the moon The first spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust The first space vehicle to soft-land on Moon The first space vehicle to orbite the moon The first space-craft to leave solar system The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space The first manned spacehip to perform space flight round the moon

Russia

Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) Alexei Lenov (Russian)

Edward White

USSR

Lunik-II

Surveyor-3 (USA)

Luna-9 (Russia) Luna-10 (Russia) Pioneer II

Apollo-9 (USA)

Apollo-8 (USA)

First Olympic team medal

Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Nethherlands.

First

Olympic

individual

medal (in British India) First medal First across Channel First across Channel First Formula I race driver First Formula I team First A1 GP race victory First Asian Games Women the to swim Person the to swim Olympic individual

Norman Pritchard, 1900

Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympic Helsinki.

English Mihir Sen,

English Mihir Sen, 1958

Narain Karthikeyan Force India F1 Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007

organised First in CHESS First Chess Grandmaster First FIDE World Chess

Delhi (1951)

Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18

Champion First Undisputed World

Viswanathan Anand in December 2000

Chess Champion First in TENNIS

Viswanathan Anand in September 2007

First Tennis Grand Slam Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles title category of the 1997 French Open

First Tennis Grand Slam Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the First round of 1998 win by a women Grand Slam event Australian Open First Women in 4th round (higest as of 2008) of a tennis Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US Open Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won a bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the medal tally.

First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title

First Tennis Grand Slam Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category Junior title by a women First in CRICKET The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (19121936) Against England at Lord's June,25, 1932 of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

First Cricket tournament

First Cricket Test Match

First Cricket Captain First Cricketer to score a century First Cricketer to score a triple century First ODI cricket hat-trick First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win First Batsman to complete 10,000 Cricket First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries runs in

CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay

Vijay Hazare

Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001

At the 1983 Cricket World Cup

Test Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)

Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)

Sachin Tendulkar

First Miss World First Miss Universe First Booker Prize

Reita Faria in 1966 Susmita Sen in 1994 Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997 Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr. C.V. Raman in 1954 to receive Bharat

First Bharat Ratna

First Ratna

Foreigner

Khan Abdul Ghaffar

First Person to receive Stalin Prize First Chevalier

Saifuddin Kitchlu Sivaji Ganesan

First Person to receive Jnapith Award

Shri Shankar Kurup

First Dadasaheb Phalke Award First Ashoka Chakra Award to

Devika Rani in 1969 a D.K. Jatar, captain of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice." Vinoba Bhave

civilian (posthumous) First Magsaysay Award First Winner of a major literary award in the United States First Ford Supermodel of the

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

World(contest) First Indian recipient of 'Oscar Award'

Bipasha Basu, 1996

Bhanu Athaiya

First Commander-in-Chief of Free India

General Sir Roy Bucher

First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 First Chief of Air Staff First Indian Chief of Staff First Chief of Naval Staff First Field Marshall of India First Person to receive Paramvir Chakra First Cosmonaut First Atomic Submarine of India First Medium Range Missile First Indian Missile India's First Nuclear Centre Air Marshall Sir Thomas Elmhirst Air Marshall Subroto Mukerjee, 1954 Vice Admiral R D Katari S.H.F. Manekshaw Major Somnath Sharma Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984 INS Chakra Agni Prithvi (Striking range - 250 kms) Tarapur

First Sound Film

Alam Ara, 1931 Bhanu Athaiya for the Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982

First Oscar winner

First Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film First National Film Award for Cinema

Mother India in 1957

Shyamchi Aai in 1954 Mughal-e-Azam in 2004(the original black-and-white version was released in 1960) Hum Log, started in 1984, was also the first soap opera of India Kamal Haasan

First Colorized Film

First Sponsored TV Serial

First Actor to entact 10 roles

The first President of the USA The first Prime Minister of Great Britain The first President of the Chinese Republic (1912) The first Chairman of the Central Government of the People's Republic of China formally established in Peking in October, 1949 The first Governor-General of Pakistan The last king of France The first ever woman Prime Minister of a country in the world

George Washington Walpole Sun Yat-Sen

Mao Tse-tung

Mohammad Ali Jinnah Louis Philippe Mrs S. Bandaranaike

(Sri Lanka) The first woman to become Prime Minster of a country twice First Visitors, Invaders The first European invader on Indian Soil The first European to visit China The first Chinese pilgrim who came to India The first British Prime Minister to visit India The first President of the USA to visit India The first Soviet Prime Minister to visit India Alexander the Great Marco Polo Fa-hein Harold Macmillan D. Eisenhower V.I. Bulganin Mrs S. Bandaranaike