If you need to know who were the first of people in India to set a benchmark in their own field, then here is an article to help you with List of First Indians. This is a part of static GK as these names are etched in the history of India and will not be changed. These people are the first to prove themselves in their respective fields and being aware of them and their achievements will help us.The list provided here consists of First people in India in the fields of governance, science & technology, defence, sports and literature. Going through this list will help the aspirants to prepare for GK section of various Government exams such as UPSC IAS, IFS, Banking, SSC, etc. Besides that, students in school or any other curious mind will also find it useful. Go through the article and learn about the List of First Indians.
List of First Indians
The list of List of First Indians achievers is provided in the table below.
| First Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
| First Indian Governor-General of Independent India | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (1949) |
| First Field Marshall | General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| First Speaker of Lok sabha | Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956) |
| First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Vice-President of India | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan |
| First Prime-Minister of India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Finance Minister of India | R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
| First Auditor General of India | V. Narahari Rao |
| First Director of CBI | DP Kohli |
| First National Security Adviser of India | Brijesh Mishra |
| First Governor of RBI | Sir Osborne Smith |
| First Non-Congress Prime-Minister | Morarji Desai (Janata Party in 1977-79) |
| First British Governor-General of Bengal | Warren-Hastings |
| First Space Traveller | S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma |
| First Civil Servant | Satyendranath Tagore |
| First Woman IAS | Anna Ranjan George (1950) |
| First Sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar |
| First to Swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Woman to Swim across the English Channel | Arati Saha, 1959 |
| First Raman-Magsaysay Awardee | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First Nobel Prize | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| First Nobel Prize winner in Physics | C. V. Raman (in 1930) |
| First President of National Congress | Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee |
| First Chairman of Lok Sabha | G. B. Mavlankar |
| First Woman Chief Minister | Sucheta Kriplani |
| First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha | Smt. Meira Kumar (2009) |
| First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First Indian Chairman in International Court | Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| First Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission | Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim |
| First Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
| First Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. V. Raman |
| First Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ | Indira Gandhi |
| First Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters | Mrinal Sen |
| First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter | Sivaji Ganeshan |
| First Posthumous Bharat Ratna Awardee | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| First Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Puraskar | G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965) |
| First Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Puraskar | Ashapurna Devi (1976) |
| First Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner | Amrita Pritam (1956) |
| First Woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| First Woman Director General of Police | Kanchan C Bhattacharya |
| First Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart | Dr. P. Venugopal |
| First Successful heart transplanted person in India | Devi Ram (1994) |
| First Woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| First Woman Governor in India | Sarojini Naidu |
| First Licensed Pilot in India | J R D Tata |
| First Woman Air Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| First Woman Teacher in India | Savitribai Phule |
| First President of National Human Rights Commission | Justice Rangnath Mishra |
| First Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Puraskar | Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) |
| First Indian who won the World Billiard award | Wilson Jans |
| First Indian who won the Grammy award | Pt. Ravi Shankar |
| First Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. | Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977) |
| First Indian member in British House of Commons | Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) |
| First President of Indian Science Congress | Sir Asutosh Mukherjee |
| First Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times | Sherpa-Augarita |
| First Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ | Ramvilas Sharma |
| First Indian Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kazi |
| First Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ | C. K. Naidu |
| First Actress to win Padma Shri Award | Nargis Dutt (1958) |
| First Indian players who played Davis Cup | M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) |
| First Tennis Grandslam Title Winner | Mahesh Bhupati |
| First Indian player who played the Test Cricket | K. S. Ranjeet Singh |
| First Scientist elected for Lok Sabha | Dr. Meghnad Saha |
| First Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla Award? | Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) |
| First Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar | C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) |
| First Person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain |
V. K. Krishna-Menon |
| Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlew |
| First to contest election for British Parliament | Lal Mohan Ghose |
| First Woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu (1883) |
| First Woman Chief Justice of High Court | Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh, 1991) |
| First to be appointed as High Court Judge, during the British Period | Ram Prasad Ram |
| First Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council | Sir. S. P. Sinha |
| First Chairman of Finance Commission | K. C. Niogi |
| First Woman Doctorate of Science | Asima Chatterjee (1944) |
| First Woman IPS | Kiran Bedi |
| First Woman Supreme Court Judge | Kumari Fathima Beevi |
| First Indian member of American Congress | Dalip Singh |
| First Editor of Time Magazine | Bobby Ghosh |
| First Director of CBI becoming Governor | Ashwani Kumar |
| First Person to reach the North Pole | Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar |
| First Person to reach the South Pole | Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj |
| First Nishan-e-Pakistan | Morarji Desai (1990) |
| First Miss World | Reita Faria in (1966) |
| First Miss Asia Pacific | Zeenat Aman (1970) |
| First Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen (1994) |
| First Miss Earth | Nicole Faria (2010) |
| First Place to get electricity | Darjeeling (1897) |
| First Sound Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| First Colour film | Kisan Kanya (1937) |
| First Oscar winner | Bhanu Athaiya ( Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982 ) |
| First Dadasaheb Phalke Awardee | Devika Rani (1969) |
| First Test-Tube Baby | Durga Agarwal (born 1978) |
| First Newspaper of India | Hickey’s Bengal Gazette (1760) |
| First First Lady Doctor | Anandibai Joshi |
| First Satellite of India | Aryabhata (launched on 19 April 1975) |
| First Man to climb Mt. Everest | Tenzing Norgay |
| First Man to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen | Phu Dorjee (1984) |
| First Woman to Climb Mt. Everest | Bachendri Pal |
| First District to achieve 100% literacy rate | Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990 |
| First Captain in Tests | C. K. Nayudu (in 1932) |
| First ODI captain | Ajit Wadekar |
| First Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket | Harbhajan Singh |
| First Batsman who made 300 runs in Test Cricket | Virendra Sehwag |
| First Marshal of Indian Air Force | Arjan Singh |
| First Individual Medal in Olympic games | KD Jadhav |
| First Grandmaster | Viswanathan Anand |
| First Woman Grandmaster | Koneru Humpy |
| First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic Games | Abhinav Bindra |
| First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic Games | Vijendra Kumar |
| First Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| First Fellow of the Royal Society | Ardaseer Cursetjee |
| First First Gold Medallist on International Track | Hima Das |
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