First in India
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First in India
Here is a long and complete list of First in India. The list contains achievements which were achieved by extraordinary peoples in India in different categories.
| First in India | Name |
|---|---|
| Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
| Indian Governor-General of Independent India | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
| Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 |
| Field Marshall | General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| Speaker of loksabha | Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956). |
| President | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Vice-President | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnansardar-vallabh-bhai-patel |
| Prime-Minister | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| Home Minister | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Finance Minister of India | R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
| Auditor General of India | V. Narahari Rao |
| Director of CBI | DP Kohli |
| National Security Adviser | Brijesh Mishra |
| Governor of RBI | Sir Osborne Smith |
| Non-Congress Prime-Minister | Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79. |
| British Governor-General of Bengal | Warren-Hastings |
| Space traveller | S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma |
| C. S. | Satendra Nath Tagore |
| Woman IAS | Anna Ranjan George, 1950 |
| Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming | Mihir Sen |
| Woman to swim across the English Channel | Arati Saha, 1959 |
| Raman-Magsaysay awardee | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| Nobel prize winner | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | C. V. Raman in 1930 |
| President of National Congress | Wyomesh Chand Banerjee |
| Chairman of Lok Sabha | G. B. Mavlankar |
| First Woman Chief Minister | Sucheta Kriplani |
| Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha | Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009 |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| Indian Chairman in International Court | Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission | Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya |
| Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman |
| Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ | Indira Gandhi |
| Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters | Mrinal Sen |
| Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter | Sivaji Ganeshan |
| Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar | G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965) |
| Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar | Ashapurna Devi, 1976 |
| Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner | Amrita Pritam, 1956 |
| Woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| Woman Director General of Police | Kanchan C Bhattacharya |
| Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart | Dr. P. Venugopal |
| Woman to received Nobal Prize | Mother Teresa |
| Woman Governor | Sarojini NaiduMorarji-Desai |
| Licensed Pilot | J R D Tata |
| Woman Air Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| Woman Teacher | Savitribai Phule |
| Successful heart transplanted person | Devi Ram (1994) |
| President of National Human Rights Commission | Justice Rangnath Mishra |
| Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar | Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) |
| Indian who won the World Billiard award | Wilson Jans |
| Indian who won the Grammy award | Pt. Ravi Shankar |
| Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. | Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977) |
| Indian member in British House of Commons | Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) |
| First President of Indian Science Congress | Sir Asutosh Mukherjee |
| Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times | Sherpa-Augarita |
| Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ | Ramvilas Sharma |
| Indian Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kazi |
| Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ | C. K. Naidu |
| Actress to win Padma Shri Award | Nargis Dutt, 1958 |
| Indian players played Davis Cup | M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921) |
| Tennis Grandslam title winner | Mahesh Bhupati |
| Indian player who played the test cricket | K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England) |
| Scientist elected for Lok Sabha | Dr. Meghnad Saha |
| Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award | Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) |
| Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar | C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) |
| Person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain | V. K. Krishna-Menon |
| Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize | Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952) |
| First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament | Lal Mohan Ghose |
| Woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| Woman Chief Justice of High Court | Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991 |
| An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period | Ram Prasad Ram |
| Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council | Sir. S. P. Sinha |
| Leanin Peace Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlew |
| Chairman of Finance Commission | K. C. Niogimother-teresa |
| Woman Doctorate of Science | Asima Chatterjee (1944) |
| Woman IPS | Kiran Bedi |
| Woman Supreme Court judge | Kumari Fathima Beevi |
| Indian member of American Congress | Deleep Singh |
| Editor of Time Magazine | Bobby Ghosh |
| Director of CBI becoming Governor | Ashwani Kumar |
| Person to reach the North Pole | Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar |
| Person to reach the South Pole | Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj |
| Nishan-e-Pakistan | Morarji Desai, 1990 |
| Magsaysay Award | Vinoba Bhave, 1958 |
| Miss World | Reita Faria in 1966 |
| Miss Asia Pacific | Zeenat Aman in 1970 |
| Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen in 1994 |
| Miss Earth | Nicole Faria in 2010 |
| Place to get electricity | Darjeeling in 1897 |
| Sound film | Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani |
| Colour film | Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani |
| Oscar winner | Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982. |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Devika Rani in 1969 |
| Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters | Sivaji Ganesan |
| Test-tube baby | Durga Agarwal, born 1978 |
| Newspaper | Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760sushmita-sen |
| First Lady Doctor | Anandibai Joshi |
| Satellite | Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975 |
| Man to climb Mt Everest | Tenzing Norgay |
| Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen | Phu Dorjee, 1984 |
| Woman to climb Mt everest | Bachendri Pal |
| District to achieve 100% literacy rate | Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990 |
| Captain in Tests | C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England |
| ODI captain | Ajit Wadekar |
| Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket | Harbhajan Singh |
| Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket | Virendra Sehwag |
| First Marshal of Indian Air Force | Arjan Singh |
| Individual Medal in Olympic games | KD Jadhav |
| Grandmaster | Viswanathan Anad |
| Woman Grandmaster | Koneru Humpy |
| First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games | Abhinav Bindra |
| First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games | Vijendra Kumar |
| Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | Ardaseer Cursetjee |
| Woman External Affairs Minister | Sushma Swaraj |
| First Gold Medallist on International Track | Hima Das |
| First Athlete to win Gold in Olympics | Neeraj Chopra |
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