FIRST IN INDIA

First person 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