First In India (MALE)

1. The first President of India : Dr. Rajendra Prasad

2. The first Prime Minister of India : Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

3. The first Indian to win Nobel Prize : Rabindranath Tagore

4. The first President of Indian National Congress :  W. C. Banerjee

5. The first Muslim President of India : Dr. Zakir Hussain

6. The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress : Badruddin Tayyabji

7. The first British Governor General of India : Warren Hastings

8. The first British Viceroy of India : Lord Canning

9. The first Governor General of free India : Lord Mountbatten

10. The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India :

C. Rajgopalachari

11. The first Muslim king of India who paid special attention to administration :                                                                                                                                 Shershah suri

12. The first who introduced printing press in India : James Hicky

13. The first Indian to join the I.C.S. :   Satyendra Nath Tagore

14. The first Indian in space : Rakesh Sharma

15. The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full

term : Morarji Bhai  Desai

16. The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India:   General Cariappa

17. The first Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council : S. P. Sinha

18. The first President of India who died while in office : Dr. Zakir Hussain

19. The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament :                                                                                                               Choudhary Charan Singh

20. The first Indian artificial satellite : Aryabhatta

21. The first Field Marshal of India : S.H.F.J. Manekshaw

22. The first Indian to get Nobel prize in Physics : C. V. Raman

23. The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna : Dr. S. Radhakhrishnan

24. The first Indian to cross English Channel : Mihir Sen

25. The first person to receive Gyanpith Award : Sri Shankar Kurup

26. The first Speaker of Lok Sabha : G. V. Mavalankar

27. The first Vice-President of India : Dr. S. Radhakhrishnan

28. The first Education Minister : Abul Kalam Azad

29. The first Home Minister of India : Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

30. The first Air Chief Marshal : S. Mukherjee

31. The first Naval Chief : Vice Admiral R. D. Katari

32. The first judge of International Court of Justice : Dr. Nagendra Singh

33. The first atomic reactor : Apsara

34. The first person to receive Paramveer Chakra : Major Somnath Sharma

35. The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen : Sherpa Anga Dorjee

36. The first Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen

37. The first person to receive Magssasey Award : Acharya Vinoba Bhave

38. The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel prize in medicine :

Dr. Hargovind Khurana

39. The first open university : Andhra Pradesh Open University

40. The first person to resign from the central cabinet : Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

41. The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna : Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

42. The first person to receive Nobel prize I Economics : Amartya Sen

43. The first Indian judge : Justice H. J. Kania

44. The first governor of West Bengal : C. Raj Gopalachari

45. The first Indian to win a Grammy Award (1994) : Vishwa Mohan Bhatt