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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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FAQs
who is the first person of India at present?
The president is always the first person of India. Currently [2022] the president of India is Droupadi Murmu.
Who is the first sport person from India to win individual gold medal in the Olympics game?
Abhinav Bindra is the first sport person from India to win individual gold medal in the Olympics. He won the medal in 10-metre Air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics in 2008