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SL Category Name 1 First Actress to win Padma Shri Award Nargis Dutt, 1958 2 First Dadasaheb Phalke Award Devika Rani in 1969 3 First Indian recipient of 'Oscar Award' Bhanu Athaiya 4 First Indian woman ( lady) to become "Miss World" Rita Faria 5 First Indian woman Air Vice Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya 6 First Indian woman Airline Pilot Durga Banerjee 7 First Indian woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma 8 First Indian woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission Roze Millian Bethew 8 First Indian woman chairperson of Indian Airlines Sushma Chawla Mrs. Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High 10 First Indian woman chief justice of a High Court Court) 11 First Indian woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani 12 First Indian woman Director General of Police (DGP) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya 13 First Indian woman first and the last Muslim woman ruler of Delhi Razia Sultan 14 First Indian woman Governor of a State in free India Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 15 First Indian woman I.P.S. Officer Mrs. Kiran Bedi 16 First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi 17 First Indian woman Lieutenent General Puneeta Arora 18 First Indian Woman Minister of Indian Railways Mamata Banerjee 19 First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal 20 First Indian woman president of India Smt. Pratibha Patil 21 First Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress Mrs. Annie Besant 22 First Indian woman President of the United Nations General Assembly Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit 23 First Indian woman Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi 24 First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice 25 First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 26 First Indian woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha 27 First Indian woman to go into space Kalpana Chawlas 28 First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event P.T.Usha 29 First Indian woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot 30 First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs. Indira Gandhi

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SL Category Name 31 First Indian woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi 32 First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa 33 First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel Miss 34 First Indian woman to win a Gold Medal in Asian Games Kamaljeet Sandhu 35 First Indian woman to win the Booker Prize Arundhati Roy 36 First Indian woman to win WTA Title First Indian woman who become an individual member of International 37 Nita Ambani (2016) Olympic Committee 38 First Indian woman who reached Antarctica Mahel Musa 39 First Lady Doctor Anandibai Joshi 40 First Miss Asia Pacific Zeenat Aman in 1970 41 First Miss Earth Nicole Faria in 2010 42 First Miss Universe Susmita Sen in 1994 Durga Agarwal, born 1978 (Subhash 43 First Test-tube baby Mukhopadhyay -physician) 44 First Woman Doctorate of Science Asima Chatterjee (1944) 45 First woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha Nargis Dutt Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 46 First woman Graduates 1883 47 First Woman Grandmaster 48 First Woman Headmistress in school Savitribai Phule 49 First woman Honours Graduate Kamini Roy, 1886 50 First Woman IAS Officer Anna Ranjan George, 1950 51 First woman Indian Cabinet Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district 52 First woman Judge court in 1937) 53 First woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee 54 First woman Olympic medal Winner , 2000 55 First Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Amrita Pritam, 1956 56 First woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi 57 First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

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SL Category Name 1 First and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India C. Rajgopalachari 2 D.K. Jatar, captain of the sabotaged plane Kashmir First Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian (posthumous) Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice." 3 First Auditor General of India V. Narahari Rao 4 First Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket Virendra Sehwag 5 First Bengali President of India Pranab Mukherjee 6 First Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket 7 First British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) 8 First British Governor General of India Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) 8 First British Viceroy of India Lord Canning 10 First Captain in Tests cricket C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England 11 First Chairman of Finance Commission K. C. Niogi 12 First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter Sivaji Ganeshan 13 First Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen 14 First Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania Justice M Hidaytullah (Acting President of India from First Chief Justice of Supreme Court to become President of 15 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969 and from 6 October India 1982 to 31 October 1982) 16 First Chief of Army Staff- Gen Maharaj Rajendra Singhji 17 First Chinese traveller to visit India Fahein 18 First Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters Mrinal Sen 19 First Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel 20 First Director of CBI becoming Governor Ashwani Kumar 21 First Director of CBI DP Kohli 22 First Editor of Time Magazine/ TIME Magazine's World Editor Bobby Ghosh 23 First Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad 24 First European to invade India Alexander 25 First Field Marshal of India S.H.F. Manekshaw 26 First Finance Minister of Independent India Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys 27 First Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna Khan Abdul Ghaffar 28 First Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten

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SL Category Name 29 First Governor of RBI Sir Osborne Smith 30 First Grandmaster 31 First Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) 32 First Home minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel 33 First Indian appointed the judge of High Court, during the British Ram Prasad Ram period 34 First Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee 35 First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 36 First Indian Managing Director of World Bank Gautam Kazi 37 First Indian member in British House of Commons Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) 38 First Indian member of American Congress Deleep Singh 39 First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council Sir. S. P. Sinha 40 First Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari 41 First Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929) 42 First Indian player who played the test cricket K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England) 43 First Indian to cross English Channel 44 First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V. Raman in 1930 45 First Indian to hoist the National Flag over the North Pole Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar 46 First Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Nath Tagore 47 First Indian to pass ICS Surendra Nath Banerjee Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, C. Rajagopalachari, 48 First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award and Dr. C.V. Raman in 1954 Rabindranath Tagore for Literature, 1913. He was 49 First Indian to win Nobel Prize also the first Asian to get the Prize 50 First Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Tournament 51 First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament Lal Mohan Ghose 52 First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games Abhinav Bindra 53 First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games Vijendra Kumar 54 First Indian who won the Grammy award Pt. Ravi Shankar 55 First Indian who won the World Billiard award Wilson Jans 56 First India's longest serving Chief Minister Jyoti Basu Norman Pritchard / (after independence) KD 57 First Individual Medal in Olympic games Jadhav 58 First Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

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SL Category Name 59 First Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim 60 First Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) 61 First Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen , 1984 62 First Man to climb Mt Everest Tenzing Norgay 63 First man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky 64 First Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh 65 First Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times Sherpa-Augarita 66 First Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji 67 First Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr. Zakhir Hussain 68 First National Security Adviser Brijesh Mishra 69 First Nishan-e-Pakistan Award Morarji Desai, 1990 70 First Noble Prize in Economics Amartya Sen in 1998 Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (Indian Born US 71 First Noble Prize in Medicine Citizen) by Janta Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime 72 First Non-Congress Government Minister (1977-1980) 73 First ODI captain (cricket ) 74 First Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977) 75 First person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma 76 First Person to reach the North Pole Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan on 23 April 1985 77 First Person to reach the South Pole Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj 78 First Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup 79 First person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave 80 First person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu 81 First person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 82 First Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain V. K. Krishna-Menon 83 First Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ C. K. Naidu 84 First Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee Lal Bahadur Shastri 85 First Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence Shri R.K.Shanmukhan Chettys on Nov. 26, 1947 86 First President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain 87 First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee 88 First President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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SL Category Name 89 First President of Indian Science Congress Sir Asutosh Mukherjee 90 First President of National Human Rights Commission Justice Rangnath Mishra 91 First Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 92 First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament Charan Singh 93 First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the Morarji Desai full term 94 First Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 term(five years) 1996 95 First Prime Minster from South India P.V. Narasimha Rao, June 21, 1991 to May 16 1996 96 First Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) 97 First Scientist elected for Lok Sabha Dr. Meghnad Saha 98 First Sikh President Giani Zail Singh 99 First Sikh Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 100 First Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar 101 First Successful heart transplanted person Devi Ram (1994) 102 First Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart Dr. P. Venugopal 103 First Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan 104 First Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ Ramvilas Sharma 105 India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma 106 Tennis Grandslam title winner Mahesh Bhupati 107 First Indian footballer to play overseas Mohammed Salim 108 First Indian football goalkeeper to play overseas Subrata Pau l 109 First footballer to be named the Indian footballer of the century Pradip Kumar Banerjee (20th century) 110 First Indian as well as an Asian to be declared best captains in the Shailen Manna world by English FA 111 First Indian to be inducted in the AFC Hall of Fame Baichung Bhutia 112 First Indian to score the fastest goals (third fastest in the world) I. M. Vijayan

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