Kallanai Dam

(First dam in India)

C. Rajagopalachari

(First Indian Governor-General of Independent India)

K. M. Cariappa

(First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India)

Sam Manekshaw

(First Field Marshall)

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

(First Speaker of Lok sabha)

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(First President of India)

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

(First Vice-President of India)

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

(First Prime-Minister of India)

(First Home Minister of India)

Ramasamy Chetty Kandasamy Shanmukham Chetty

(First Finance Minister of India)

V. Narahari Rao

(First Auditor General of India)

DP Kohli

(First Director of CBI)

Brijesh Mishra

(First National Security Adviser of India)

Sir Osborne Smith

(First Governor of RBI)

Morarji Desai

(First Non-Congress Prime-Minister)

Warren-Hastings

(First British Governor-General of Bengal)

Rakesh Sharma

(First Space Traveller)

Satyendranath Tagore

(First Civil Servant)

Anna Rajam Malhotra

(First Woman IAS)

Sachin Tendulkar

(First Sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna)

Mihir Sen

(First to Swim across the English Channel)

Arati Saha

(First Woman to Swim across the English Channel)

Vinoba Bhave

(First Raman-Magsaysay Awardee)

Rabindranath Tagore

(First Nobel Prize)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

(First Nobel Prize winner in Physics)

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

(First President of National Congress)

Sukumar Sen

(First Chief Election Commissioner)

Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

(First Indian Chairman in International Court)

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(First Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna)

Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim

(First Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission)

Justice Hiralal J. Kania

(First Chief Justice of Supreme Court)

Indira Gandhi

(First Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’)

Mrinal Sen

(First Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters)

Sivaji Ganesan

(First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter)

Lal Bahadur Shastri

(First Posthumous Bharat Ratna Awardee)

G. Sankara Kurup

(First Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Puraskar)

Ashapoorna Devi

(First Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Puraskar)

Amrita Pritam

(First Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner)

Kamini Roy

(First Woman Honours Graduate)

Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

(First Woman Director General of Police)

Panangipalli Venugopal

(First Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart)

Mother Teresa

(First Woman to receive Nobel Prize)

Sarojini Naidu

(First Woman Governor in India)

J R D Tata

(First Licensed Pilot in India)

Durba Banerjee

(First Woman Air Pilot)

Savitribai Phule

(First Woman Teacher in India)

Ranganath Misra

(First President of National Human Rights Commission)

Sumitranandan Pant

(First Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Puraskar)

Ravi Shankar

(First Indian who won the Grammy award)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

(First Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.)

Dadabhai Naoroji

(First Indian member in British House of Commons)

Ashutosh Mukherjee

(First President of Indian Science Congress)

Sherpa-Augarita

(First Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times)

Ram Vilas Sharma

(First Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’)

C. K. Nayudu

(First Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’)

Nargis

(First Actress to win Padma Shri Award)

Mahesh Bhupathi

(First Tennis Grandslam Title Winner)

Ranjitsinhji

(First Indian player who played the Test Cricket)

Dr. Meghnad Saha

(First Scientist elected for Lok Sabha)

Asis Datta

(First Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla Award?)

V. K. Krishna Menon

(First Person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain)

Saifuddin Kitchlew

(Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize)

Lalmohan Ghosh

(First to contest election for British Parliament)

Kadambini Ganguly

(First Woman Graduates)

Leila Seth

(First Woman Chief Justice of High Court)

Ram Prasad Ram

(First to be appointed as High Court Judge, during the British Period)

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

(First Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council)

Asima Chatterjee

(First Woman Doctorate of Science)

Kiran Bedi

(First Woman IPS)

Fathima Beevi

(First Woman Supreme Court Judge)

Duleep Singh

(First Indian member of American Congress)

Bobby Ghosh

(First Editor of Time Magazine)

Ashwani Kumar

(First Director of CBI becoming Governor)

Reita Faria

(First Miss World)

Zeenat Aman

(First Miss Asia Pacific)

Nicole Faria

(First Miss Earth)

Darjeeling

(First Place to get electricity)

Alam Ara

(First Sound Film)

Kisan Kanya

(First Colour film)

Bhanu Athaiya

(First Oscar winner)

Devika Rani

(First Dadasaheb Phalke Awardee)

Hickys Bengal Gazette

(First Newspaper of India)

Anandi Gopal Joshi

(First First Lady Doctor)

Aryabhata (satellite)

(First Satellite of India)

Tenzing Norgay

(First Man to climb Mt. Everest)

Bachendri Pal

(First Woman to Climb Mt. Everest)

Ernakulam district

(First District to achieve 100% literacy rate)

Ajit Wadekar

(First ODI captain)

harbhajan singh

(First Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket)

Virendra Sehwag

(First Batsman who made 300 runs in Test Cricket)

Arjan Singh

(First Marshal of Indian Air Force)

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav

(First Individual Medal in Olympic games)

Viswanathan Anand

(First Grandmaster)

Humpy Koneru

(First Woman Grandmaster)

Abhinav Bindra

(First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic Games)

Vijender Kumar

(First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic Games)

Srinivasa Ramanujan

(First Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge)

Ardaseer Cursetjee

(First Fellow of the Royal Society)

Hima Das

(First First Gold Medallist on International Track)