First Recipients of Various Awards ######################## ●●BHARAT RATNA 1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Bharat Ratna----C Rajagopalachari 2) 1st Bharat Ratna Awardee to become the President of India----Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 3) 1st person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously ----Lal Bahadur Shastri 4) 1st Scientist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----CV Raman 5) 1st and only Industrialist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----JRD Tata 6) 1st woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----Mrs. Indira Gandhi ●●LITERARY AWARDS 1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature ---- Rabindranath Tagore 2) 1st recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith award ----G Sankara Kurup 3) 1st recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for English ----RK Narayan 4) 1st person to receive Nobel prize for English literature ---- Rudyard Kipling 5) 1st Indian to receive the Booker prize (British citizen) ---- Salman Rushdie 6) 1st Indian woman (and also first Indian citizen) to receive the Booker prize ---- Arundhati Roy 7) 1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category) ---- Gobind Behari Lal ●●SPORTS AWARDS 1) 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award---- Viswanathan Anand 2) 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ---- Karnam Malleshwari 3) 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award ----Aparna Ghosh 4) 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award---- Salim Durrani ●●AWARDS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE 1) 1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize ---- CV Raman 2) 1st person to receive Nobel prize for Physics ---- William K Roentgen 3) 1st woman to receive the Nobel prize ---- Madame Curie (1903) ●●GALLANTRY AWARDS 1) 1st winner of Param Vir Chakra ---- Major Somnath Sharma 2) 1st and only Air Force person to receive the Param Vir Chakra----Flying Officer Nirmaljit Shekhon 3) 1st and only woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra ---- Neerja Bhanot (1987) ●●FOREIGN AWARDS 1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan ---- Morarjee Desai 2) 1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award ---- Vinoba Bhave ●●FILM AWARDS 1) 1st winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award ---- Devika Rani 2) 1st winner of Filmfare best actor award ---- Dilip Kumar 3) 1st winner of Filmfare best actress award ---- Meena Kumari 4) 1st Hindi film to win the National film Award ---- Mirza Ghalib (1954) 5) 1st film to win the Best Film Academy Award (Oscar) ---- Wings (1927-28) ●●OTHER AWARDS 1) 1st recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding ---- U Thant (1965) 2) 1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development ---- Parliamentarians for Global Action(1986) 3) 1st recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian Award ---- Shri Chandrashekhar (1995) 4) 1st recipient of Gandhi Peace Prize (Govt of India Award)---- Julius Nyerere (1995) 5) 1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Borlaug (Father of Green Revolution) ----MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution in India ), 1987 6) 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Individual) ---- Asghar Ali Engineer, 1997 7) 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Organisation)---- Quami Ekta Trust, 1997 8) 1st recipient of Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony ---- Pt. Ravi Shankar, 2012 9) 1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (Americas prestigious award for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity) ---- APJ Abdul Kalam, 2008 10) 1st recipient of VK Krishna Menon Award (instituted by London based VK Krishna Menon Foundation) ---- Former CJI KG Balakrishnana ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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