List of First Person in India [Latest 2022 Data]

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List of First Person in India

List of the first person in India – Part 1

First Chinese pilgrim to visit India	Fa-Hien/Faxian
The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India	Razia Sultan
First English Ambassador to the court of a Mughal Emperor	Thomas Roe
The first British Governor-General of Bengal	Lord Warren Hastings(1773-1785)
The first British Governor-General of India	Lord William Bentinck(1828-1835)
The first British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
First Post Office Opened in India	Kolkata (1727)
First Wax statue of a Living Indian	Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud’s in 1939
India’s First Open University	Dr. B.R Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
India’s First University	Nalanda University
India’s first man in Space	Rakesh Sharma
The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
First Indian to reach Antarctica	Lt. Ram Charan
First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tyabji
The first and the last Indian to be Governor-General of free India	C. Rajagopalachari
The first Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Harilal J. Kania
The first Education Minister	Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Defence Minister of India	Baldev Singh
The first Law Minister of India	Dr. B R Ambedkar
The first Railway Minister of India	John Mathai
The first Finance Minister of India	R K Shanmukham Chetty
The first Minister of Food and Agriculture in India	Rajendra Prasad
The first Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Governor-General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
The first Home Minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	Subroto Mukerjee
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council	S P Sinha
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari

List of the first person in India – Part 2

The first Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata (1929)
The first Indian to cross English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	C.V. Raman
The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services	Satyendra Nath Tagore
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
The first Indian lady to become Miss World	Rita Faria
The first Indian Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Ang Dorjee
The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine	Hargovind Khurana
The first person to receive Jnanpith award	G Shankara Kurup
The first Indian to receive Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
The first Indian to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
The first President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term	Morarji Desai
The first Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
The first Indian woman to pilot an aircraft	Sarla Thukral
The first Indian woman commercial Pilot	Durba Banerjee
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner	Kamaljeet Sandhu
The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Rose Millian Bathew

List of the first person in India – Part 3

The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman Chief Justice of High Court	Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman Director General of Police	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Governor of a state in free India	Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Graduates	Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
The first woman Honours Graduate	Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman IPS officer	Kiran Bedi
The first woman Judge	Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India	M. Fathima Beevi
The first woman Lawyer	Cornelia Sorabjee
The first woman Minister in the Union Cabinet	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
The first woman Olympic medal Winner	Karnam Malleswari, 2000
The first woman pilot to fly solo in the Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Deol
The first woman President of Indian National Congress	Annie Besant
The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first woman Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Shanno Devi
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman to cross English Channel	Arati Saha
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Neerja Bhanot
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa

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