First In India

First ICS Officer
– Satyendranath Tagore

First Pilot
– JRD Tata , Tata Airlines (1929)

First Lawgiver
– Manu , Manu Smriti

First Chief Justice of India
– Harilal J Kania (1950-51)

First Chief of Air Staff
– Sri Thomas Elmhirst (1947-50)

First Bharat Ratna Award Winner
– C.Rajagopalachari (1954)
– Dr.Radhakrishnan (1954)
– Dr.CV Raman (1954)

First Chief of Army Staff to die in Harness
– B C Joshi (1994)

First Chief of Air Staff to die in Harness
-S M Mukherjee (1960 in Japan)

First Aryabhatta Medal Winner
– K R Ramanathan

First British Governor General of free India
– Lord Louis Mountbatten

First Dancer to perform Abroad
– Uday Shanker

First Captain of Test Cricket
– C K Nayudu (1932)

First Century in Test Cricket
– Lala Amarnath (1933-34)

First Chairman of Rajya Sabha
– Dr.Radhakrishnan (1952-1962)

First Chief Election Commissioner
– Sukumar Sen (1950-58)

First Commander -in -Chief
– KM Cariappa (1949-1953)

First Chief of Coast Guard
– VA Kamath (1978-1980)

First Chief of Naval Staff
– RD Katari (1958-1962)

First Deputy Prime Minister
– Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-1950)

First Elected President
– Dr.Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)

First Indian Governor General of Free India
– C Rajagopalachari (june 1948-June 1950)

First Jain Tirthankara
– Rishabha Dev

First Man to Climb Mount Everest without oxygen
-Phu Dorjee (1984)

First Man to Climb Mount Everest
– Tenzing Norgay (with Edmund Hillary,1953)

First Indian Chief of Air Staff
– S.Mukherjee (1954-1960)

First Indian Chief of Army Staff
– M Rajendra Sinhji April,1955-may-1955

First Home Minister
-Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1946)

First Grammarian
– Panini,Ashtadhyayi

First Man to make Solo Flight ( from USA to India)
– Satish Soman (1994)

First Man to Swami Across English Channel
– Mihir Sen (1966)

First Man to reach South Pole
– JK Bajaj (1989)

First Man to swim several straits in one calendar year
– Mihir sen (1966)

First President of Indian National Congress
-WC Bannerjee (1885)
First President of India
– Dr.Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)

First Physically Handicapped Mountaineer
– Baba Mahendra Pal

First Olympics Medal winner
– Norman Pritchard (Silver – 1900)

First Nobel Prize winner
– Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali,1913)

First man to win individual Olympic medal
– K D Yadav
(bronze wrestling- Helsinki Olympic 1952)

First Finance present the budget 3 times in a raw
– Mohan Singh (1993, 1994 ,1995)

First Jnanpith award winner
– Govind Sankara Kurup ( 1965 Malayalam)

First managing director of World Bank
– Gautam Kaji ( 1995)

First J C Bose medal winner
– V. Ramalinga -swami ( 1977)

First Lata Mangeshkar award winner
– Noushad 1984

First lady of Indian Film
– Devika Rani Roerich

First phoenix award winner
– sr. P. Sorcar

First Deputy Prime Minister to die in harness
– Vallabhbhai (1947-1950)

First Field Marshal
– SH FJ Manekshaw (1973)

First finance minister of free India
– R.K Shanmukham Chetty (1947)

First Dada Saheb Phalke award winner
– Devika Rani Roerich ( 1969)

First President of International Court of Justice
– Nagendra Singh ( 1970)
First Finance Minister presented budget
– R K shanmukham Chetty ( 1947)

first Prime Minister of India
– Jawaharlal Nehru

first Prime Minister to die in harness
– Jawaharlal Nehru

first Prime Minister who assistant
– Indira Gandhi

first Prime Minister who resign from office
– Morarji Desai (1979)

First Prime Minister to the head of a minority government
– Chaudhary Charan Singh

first Prime Minister who did not face parliament
– Chaudhary Charan Singh

first speaker of Lok Sabha
– Ganesh Vasudev mavalankar

First Test Tube baby
– baby Harsha or Indira ( 1986)

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First Vice President of India
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan( 1952 -1962)

first woman Muslim ruler
– Razia Sultana

First Ramon Magsaysay Award winner
– Vinoba Bhave (1958)

First recipient of world food prize
– MS Swami nathan ( 1987)

First Ramanujan medal winner
– S Chandra shekhar

first SS Bhatnagar medal winner
-Atma Ram (1959)

First recipient of Stalin Peace Prize
– Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew (1954)

First Naval Pilot
– Y N Singh (1941)

First to speak in Hindi at the UN
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
First Miss Universe
– Sushmita sen (1994)

First Miss World
– Reita Faria (1966)

First Musician Padma Bhushan Padma Bhushan and the Bharat Ratna
– MS Subbulakshmi (1974)

First Musician to get Ramon Magsaysay Award
– MS Subbulakshmi (1974)

First Marshal of the air force
– Arjun Singh

First member of British Parliament
– Dadabhai naoroji (1862)

First Nishan -1- Pakistan award winner
– Morarji Desai (1991)

First member of Viceroy’s executive Council
– Sir S P Sinha (1909)

First statesman of the world Award New York
– K R Narayanan ( 1998)

First slave ruler of India
– Qutb- Ud- Din- Aibak (1206- 1210)

First Actress of the talkies
-Zubeida, Alam Ara

First actress to win Padma Shri award
– Nargis Dutt

First Oscar winner
– Bhanu athaiya ( movie Gandhi)