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First in India
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The first President of Indian Republic
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Dr.Rajendra Prasad
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The first Prime Minister of free India
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Pt. JawaharLal Nehru
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The first woman Prime Minister
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Mrs Indira Gandhi
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The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term ( He is also first non congress prime minister)
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Morarji Desai
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Chairman of LokSabha
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G. B. Mavlankar
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Woman Speaker of LokSabha
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Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
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The first President of Indian National Congress
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W.C. Banerjee
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The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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Justice Hirala J. Kania
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The first woman judge in Supreme Court
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Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
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The first woman Chief Justice of High Court
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Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
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The first woman Judge
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Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
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The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress
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Badruddin Tayyabji
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The first woman President of Indian National Congress
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Mrs Annie Besant
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The first Muslim President of India
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Dr. Zakir Hussain
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The first Vice-President of India
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Dr. Radhakrishnan
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The first finance minister of India
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R. K. Shanmukham Shetty
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The first Education Minister
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Abdul Kalam Azad
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The first Home minister of India
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Sardar VallabhBhai Patel
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The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha
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Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
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The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly
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Shanno Devi
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The first auditor general of India
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V Narahari Rao
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An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period
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Ram Prasad Ram
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Chairman of Finance Commission
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K. C. Niogi
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Woman Doctorate of Science
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Asima Chatterjee (1944)
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The first Chief Election Commissioner
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Sukumar Sen
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The first director of CBI
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D P Kohli
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Director of CBI becoming Governor
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Ashwani Kumar
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The first national security advisor
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Brijesh Mishra
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President of National Congress
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Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
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The first man who introduced printing press in India
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James Hicky
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The first Indian to join the I.C.S
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Satyendra Nath Tagore
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Bank Clarical Exam Video DVDs by Alka Maheshwari |
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India’s first man in Space
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Rakesh Sharma
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The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India
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General Cariappa
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Governor of RBI
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Sir Osborne A Smith
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RBI governor at the time of Indepence first RBI governor of Indian origin
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Sir Chintaman D. Deshmukh
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Auditor General of India
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V. NarahariRao
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The first Chief of Army Staff
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Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
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The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council
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S. P. Sinha
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The first British Governor General of India
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Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835)
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The first British Governor General of Bengal
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Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885)
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The first British Viceroy of India
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Lord Canning
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The first Governor General of free India
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Lord Mountbatten
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The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India
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C. Rajgopalachari
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The first woman Governor of a state in free India
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Mrs Sarojini Naidu
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President of National Human Rights Commission
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Justice Rangnath Mishra
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Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.
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Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
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Indian member in British House of Commons
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Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
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The first woman to receive Nobel Prize
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Mother Teresa
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The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics
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C. V. Raman
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The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics
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Amartya Sen
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The first person to receive Magsaysay Award
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Acharya Vinoba Bhave
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The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Hargovind Khurana
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The first person to receive Stalin Prize
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Saifuddin Kitchlu
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The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna
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Mrs Indira Gandhi
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Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna
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Sachin Tendulkar
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Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna
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Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
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Posthumously Bharat Ratna Awardee
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
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The first Person to receive Jnanpith award
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Sri Shankar Kurup
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The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award
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Ashapurna Devi
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The first person to get ParamVir Chakra
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Major Somnath Sharma
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The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra
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NirjaBhanot
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Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-PeethPurskar
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G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
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Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-PeethPurskar
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Ashapurna Devi, 1976
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Woman SahityaAkademi Award Winner
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Amrita Pritam, 1956
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Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar
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Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
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Indian who won the Grammy award
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Pt. Ravi Shankar
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Woman Honours Graduate
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Kamini Roy
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Woman Director General of Police
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Kanchan C Bhattacharya
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The first Judge of International Court of Justice
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Dr. Nagendra Singh
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The first Indian to cross English Channel
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Mihir Sen
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The first woman to cross English Channel
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Aarti Saha
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The first woman to climb Mount Everest
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Bachhendri Pal
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Man to climb Mt Everest
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Tenzing Norgay
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