First in India

List of First in India Male Name First in India GK PDF: Defence

First President of the Indian Republic Dr Rajendra Prasad First Defence Minister of India Baldev Singh Chokkar
First Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru First Army Chief of Free India Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
First Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore First Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee First Indian Air Chief of India Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee
First Muslim President of Indian National General Maharaja Sri Rajendra
Badruddin Tayyabji First Chief Army Staff
Congress Singh Ji Jadeja
First Muslim President of India Dr Zakir Hussain First Chief of Naval Staff of India Vice Admiral R.D Katari
Lord William Bentinck (1833 - First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air
First British Governor General of India Subroto Mukherjee
1835) Force
Lord Warren Hasting (1774 -
First British Governor General of Bengal First Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
1885)
First British Viceroy of India Lord Canning First Nuclear Submarine of India I.N.S. Chakra
First Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten First Param Vir Chakra Winner Major Somnath Sharma
First and the last Indian Governor General of
C. Rajgopalachari First female Jawan in the Army Shanti Tigga
free India
The first man who introduced printing press James Hicky (Bengal
First large scale Atomic Reactor of India Apsara
in India Gazette)
First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft
The First Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Nath Tagore IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi
without co-pilot
First man in Space from India Rakesh Sharma First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship I.N.S. Vikrant
First Prime Minister of India who resigned
Morarji Desai First cosmonaut Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma
without completing the full term
Gen. Maharaj Rajendra
First Chief of Army Staff First Indian Submarine I.N.S. Kalvari
Singhji
First Indian to join Viceroy’s executive
S.P.Sinha First Nuclear Centre Tarapur
council
First President of India who died while in
Dr Zakir Hussain First Medium-Range Missile Agni
office

First woman in the Indian Army awarded

First Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr Zakir Hussain Divya Ajith Kumar
the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize
First Prime Minister of India who did not face
Charan Singh First in India GK: Sports
the Parliament
S.H.F. Manekshaw (1914 - Gold in Field Hockey (1928,
First Field Marshal of India First Olympics Team Medal
2008) Summer Olympics)
First person to get Nobel Prize in Physics First Indian woman wrestler to win an
C.V.Raman Navjot Kaur
from India Asian gold medal
First Badminton player of India to achieve
First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr Radhakrishnan Prakash Padukone
world no. 1 spot

First Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup
Ganesh Vasudeva
The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Mavalankar
First Vice-President of India Dr Radhakrishnan
First India Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
First India Home Minister Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
First Indian Air Marshal S. Mukherjee
First Asian Games Organised in India New Delhi (1951)
First Badminton player of India to win a
Saina Nehwal
medal at the Olympics
First Formula One Driver Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan
First Indian woman badminton player to
Saina Nehwal
win an Asian Games medal
First Indian woman to win a medal at
Santhi Soundarajan
Asian Games
First Batsman of India to score a century
Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj
for India in Test cricket

First person to win the international

First Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari Aanchal Thakur
bronze medal in skiing
First Indian Judge of International Court of First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver
Dr Nagendra Singh P. V. Sindhu in Badminton
Justice Medal
First person to reach Mt. Everest without First Female boxer to win 6 gold medals
Sherpa Ang Dorjee Mary Kom
oxygen at World Championships
First female to represent India at the Nora Polley, 1924 Summer
First person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
Summer Olympics Olympics
First Indian weightlifter to win a gold
First Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen Karnam Malleswari
medal at the Olympics
Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer
First person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave First Individual Gold Medal won by
Olympics in Beijing
First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Sakshi Malik (won Bronze in the
Hargovind Khurana First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling
Prize in Medicine 2016 Summer Olympics)
First Indian Swimmer to cross English
First Chinese traveller to visit India Fahein Mihir Sen
Channel
First Indian sportswoman to be awarded
First person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu Arati Saha
the Padma Shri
The first person to resign from the Central
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee First India vs Pakistan match 1952
Cabinet
First person to receive Nobel Prize in
Amartya Sen First India cricket captain C. K. Nayudu
Economics
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania
First Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)
 First in India Woman List First in India GK PDF: Science
First in India Female Personalities Names First hydroelectric plant Sidrapong (Darjeeling)

First Indian woman to become Miss World Rita Faria First Man in Space Rakesh Sharma

First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi First Nuclear Reactor Apsara (Maharashtra)
First woman Ambassador from India Mrs C.B. Muthamma First India satellite Aryabhatta
First Indian woman Governor of a state in First successfully indigenous launch
Mrs Sarojini Naidu SLV-3
free India vehicle
First Indian woman Speaker of a State First genetically modified food product in
Shanno Devi Bt. Eggplant Hybrid [Banned]
Assembly India
Mrs Indira Gandhi (sworn on First satellite earth station for domestic
First Indian woman Prime Minister Secunderabad
January 24, 1966) communications

First in India woman President Pratibha Patil First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V Raman
First Indian woman Minister in a 1951 (7th census in its continuous
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur First Census in India After Independence
Government series)

First woman in India to climb mount Everest Bachhendri Pal
First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest
twice
First woman President of Indian National
Congress
First Indian woman President of Indian
National Congress
First Indian woman President of United
Nations General Assembly
First Indian woman who got Graduates
degree
First Indian woman Honours Graduate
Santosh Yadav
Mrs Annie Besant
Mrs Sarojini Naidu
Mrs Vijay Laxmi Pandit
Kadambini Ganguly and
Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
Kamini Roy, 1886
First census in India viceroy
First Newspaper in India Hindi
First foreigner came to india
First Country to rule India
First train in India ran between
First dam in India river
First woman in India to be hanged
Lord Mayo
Udant Martand
Megasthenese (ambassador of
Seleucus Nikator)
Greece invaded India in 120 BC
Train ran between Bori Bunder
(Bombay) and Thane, a distance
of 34 km
Kallanai Dam 100 – 150 CE
Rattan Bai Jain,on 3 January 1955
at Tihar Jail

First Indian woman Olympic Medal Winner Karnam Malleswari, 2000 First movie in India with sound Alam Ara - 1931.
First Indian woman to win Gold Medal in
Kamlijit Sandhu First 3d Movie in India My Dear Kuttichathan
Asian Games
First Indian woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee Who invented zero first in India Brahmagupta 650 AD
First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Mrs Sucheta Kripalani First India vs Pakistan war 1947-48 (First Kashmir War)
First Indian woman Chairman of Union Public
Roze Millian Bethew First Zoo in India Aringar Anna Zoo (1855)
Service Commission
First Indian woman Director General of Kanchan Chaudhary
First emergency in india 1962 China War
Police Bhattacharya
Anna Chandy (She became
First woman Judge of India the judge in a district court First university in india was founded at Calcutta (1857)
in 1937)
First Indian woman Chief Justice of High Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal First census in india was conducted at the
1871 under British empire
Court Pradesh High Court) time of
First Indian woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora First India capital Calcutta(Before 1911)
First Indian woman Air ViceMarshal P. Bandopadhyaya First bank in India to introduce atm HSBC (1987) in Mumbai
First woman to receive Jnanpith Award from
Ashapoorna Devi First bank in india to introduce credit card Central Bank of India
India
First Indian woman IPS officer Mrs Kiran Bedi (1972)
First women IAS officer Anna Hazare (1975)
First Indian and last Muslim woman ruler of
Razia Sultana
India
First Indian woman to receive Ashoka
Nirja Bhanot
Chakra
First woman to cross the English Channel
Aarti Saha
from India
First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa
First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi

First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal
First Indian woman appeared on Time
Parveen Babi
Magazine cover

India's first test tube baby “Durga” (Kanupriya Agarwal