FIRST IN INDIA

First in India
1.
British Governor
General of Bengal
Warren Hastings
2.
Governor General of
Independent India
Lord Mountbatten
3.
Commander-in-chief of
Free India
General Roy Bucher
4.
Cosmonaut
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh
Sharma
5.
Emperor of Mughal
Dynasty in India
Babar
6.
Field Marshal
S. H. F. J.
Manekshaw
7.
Indian Governor
General of Indian Union
C. Rajagopalachari
8.
Indian I.C.S. Officer
Satyendra Nath
Tagore
9.
Indian Member of
Viceroy's Executive
Council
Sri S. P. Sinha
10.
Indian to swim across
English Channel
Mihir Sen
11.
Indian woman to swim
across-English Channel
Miss Arati Saha
12.
Man to climb Mount
Everest
Tenzing Norgay
13.
Man to climb Mount
Everest without
Oxygen
Phu Dorjee
14.
Man to climb Mount
Everest twice
Nwang Gombu
15.
Nobel Prize winner
Rabindra Nath
Tagore
16.
President of Indian
National Congress
W. C. Banerjee
17.
President of Indian
Republic
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18.
Talkie Film
Alam Ara (1931)
19.
Test Tube Baby
(Documented)
Indira
20.
Viceroy of India
Lord Canning
21.
Woman Minister of
Indian Union
Rajkumari Amrit
Kaur
22.
Woman Chief Minister
of State
Mrs. Sucheta
Kriplani
23.
Woman Governor
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
24.
Woman President of
Indian National
Congress
Dr. Annie Besant
25.
Woman Prime Minister
Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26.
Woman Speaker of a
State Assembly
Mrs. Shanno Devi
27.
Prime Minister of India
Pt. Jawahar Lal
Nehru
28.
Muslim President of
Indian Union
Dr. Zakir Hussain
29.
Speaker of Lok Sabha
G. V. Mavlankar
30.
Woman to climb mount
Everest
Bachhendri Pal
31.
Woman Judge in
Supreme Court
Mrs. Meera Sahib
Fatima Biwi
32.
Woman Chief Justice
of a High Court
Smt. Leela Seth
33.
Indian Woman to go in
space (Now U.S. Citizen)
Kalpana Chawla
34.
The first Indian
weightlifter to win
bronze medal in
Olympics
Karnam Malleshwari
(Sydney, in 2000)
35.
The First Indian World
Chess Champion
Vishwanathan
Anand
36.
India's first paperless
Newspaper
The News Today
(Launched on Jan. 3,
2001)
37.
India's First woman
Merchant Navy Officer
Sonali Banerjee
38.
The first Dalit Speaker
of the Lok Sabha
G. M. C. Balyogi
39.
The first Vice-
President of India to
die in harness
Krishna Kant
40.
The first Indian woman
cricketer to score
double century
Mithali Raj
(August 2002 playing
against England)
41.
The first woman Air
Vice-Marshal
P. Bandopadhyaya
42.
The first Indian to be
appointed as United
Nations Civilian Police
Advisor
Ms. Kiran Bedi
43.
The first astronaut of
Indian origin to perish
aboard U.S. space
shuttle in a tragic
accident
Dr. Kalpana Chawla
(Columbia space
shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)
44.
The first woman to be
appointed Deputy
Governor of Reserve
Bank of India
K. J. Udeshi
(appointed on June 10,
2003)
45.
The first Indian girl to
register a win in a
Wimbledon tournament
Sania Mirza (2003)
46.
The first Indian lady to
win a medal in World
Athletic Championship
Anju Bobby George
(Aug. 2003)
47.
The first woman
Chairman and
Managing Director of
NABARD
Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
48.
The highest individual
test scorer of India
Virendra Sehwag
( 309 runs in the first
test in Multan against
Pakistan)
49.
The first Indian
cricketer to make
double centuries five
times
Rahul Drgvid (playing
test against Pakistan
in Pakistan in. April
2004)
50.
The first Odisha
woman to top I.A.S.
Smt. Roopa Misra
(Indian Civil Services
Exam., 2003)
51.
The first Sikh Prime
Minister of India
Dr. Manmohan Singh
52.
The first woman
Director General of
Police of a State
Kanchan C.
Bhattacharya
(DGP Uttarakhand)
53.
The first woman to be
appointed as the crime
branch chief
MeeriJ Borwankar
(took over as crime
branch chief of
Mumbai police)
54.
The first woman to
reach the rank of Lt.
General in the Indian
army
Puneeta Arora
(Commandant, Armed
Forces Medical College,
Pune)
55.
The first Indian to
cross seven important
seas by swimming
Bula Chaudhury
56.
The first woman to
become Indian Air
Force's first woman
Air Marshal
Air Marshal Padma
Bandhopadhyay
57.
The first youngest MP,
at the age of 25 years
Dharmendra Yadav
(Mainpuri : Samajwadi
Party MP)
58.
India's first woman
athlete to win WTA
open Tennis title
Sania Mirza (Feb.
2005, Hyderabad)
59.
The first Indian to set
a world record of ever
having reached the
highest
of heights yet in a hot
balloon
Vijaypath Singhania
(Nov. 26, 2005. 69852
ft.)
60.
The first wonder child
of Odisha only about 4
years and a half of age
completes a race of
65 km.
Budhia (May 2006)
61.
The first woman
Commissioner of Police
of an Indian metro
(Chennai Metro Police)
Letika Saran
62.
The first Indian to Ski
to the North Pole
Ajeet Bajaj (April 26,
2006)
63.
The first sportsman
ever to win Gold Medal
in Shooting in the World
Shooting Championship
Abhinav Bindra (July
24, 2006)
64.
The first person of
Indian origin to win the
Miss Great Britain title
Preeti Desai (2006)
65.
The first woman
President of the
Republic of India
Pratibha Patil