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 Moghul 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 ( 319 runs against Sauth africa) 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times- Rahul Dravid 50. The first Orissa 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 Uttaranchal) 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 Orissa 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 First Person in India
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