First in India Women

Field Person
First Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi
First Chief Minister of
Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
State
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi
First Minister
Pandit
First Central Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First Speaker of Lok
Mrs. Shanno Devi
Sabha
First Governor of a State Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
First President of Indian
Dr. Annie Besant
National Congress
First Indian President of
Indian National Mrs.. Sarojini Naidu
Congress
First President of UN Mrs. Vijayalakshmi
General Assembly Pandit
First Muslim to sit on the
Razia Sultan
throne of Delhi
First to swim across the
Mrs. Arti Shah
English Channel
First to climb Mount
Bachhendri Pal
Everest
First to circumnavigate
Ujwala Rai
(sail round the world)
First IAS Officer Anna George Malhotra
First IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
First Advocate Cornelia Sorabji
First Judge of a High
Anna Chandi
Court
First Judge of Supreme
Ms M. Fathima Beevi
Court
First Chief Justice of a
Ms. Leila Seth
High Court
First Doctor Kadambini Ganguli
 First in India Men

Field Person
First Indian to swim across the English
Mihir Sen
Channel
First to Climb Mount Everest Tenzing Norgay
First to climb Mount Everest without
Phy Dorjee
Oxygen
First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now IAS) Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian to get Nobel Prize Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian in Space (first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh
cosmonaut) Sharma
First British Governor General Warren Hastings
First Governor General of Free India Lord Mountbatten
First and the last Governor General of free
C. Rajagopalachari
India
First President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Sikh President of India Giani Zail Singh
First Prime Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Speaker of Lok Sabha G.V. Mavlankar
First Chief Justice of India Justice H.L. Kania
First President of Indian National
W.C. Bannerjee
Congress
First Indian to become member of Lord S.P. Sinha
Viceroy's Executive Council
First Indian to become President of
Dr. Nagendra Singh
International Court of Justice
First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty Babar
First Field Marshal S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India Gen. K.M. Cariappa
First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian) Sinhji
Vice Admiral R.D.
First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian)
Katari
First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India) Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian in British Parliament Dada Bhai Nauroji
First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross
Khudada Khan
(highest award before independence)
First Indian to circumnavigate the globe Lt. Col K.S. Rao
First Indian to reach the South Pole Col J.K. Bajaj (1989)
First Indian to make a solo air flight JRD Tata
Raja Rammohan Roy
First Indian to visit England
(1832)
First Indian Member of House of Lords
Lord S.P. Sinha
(British)
First Bar-at-Law J.M. Tagore
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Chairman of Rajya Sabha
(1952 - 62)
First Indian Test Cricketer K.S. Ranjitsingh
First Air Marshall Arjan Singh
First Judge to face impeachment in the Justice V.Ramaswami
Lock Sabha (1993)
Fastest Shorthand writer Dr. G.D. Bhist (250 w