The First in India - Male and Female

The First in India - Male 

• The first person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma
• The first Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
• The first person to receive Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine - Hargovind Khurana
• The first Chinese traveller to visit India - Fahein
• The first Vice-President of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan
• The first Education Minister - Abdul Kalam Azad
• The first Home minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - S. Mukherjee
• The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral - R.D. Katari
• The first Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr. Nagendra Singh
• The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Anga Dorjee
• The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress - Badruddin Tayyabji
• The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain
• The first British Governor General of India - Lord William Bentinck (1833-1835)
• The first British Governor General of Bengal - Lord Warren Hasting (1774-1885)
• The first British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning
• The first person to receive Stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu
• The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
• The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics - Amartya Sen
• The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Hirala J. Kania
• The first Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)
• The India's first man in Space - Rakesh Sharma
• The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai
• The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India - General Cariappa
• The first Chief of Army Staff -  Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
• The first Indian Member of the Viceroys executive council - S.P.Sinha
• The first President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakhir Hussain
• The first Muslim President of Indian Republic - Dr. Zakhir Hussain
• The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh
• The first Field Marshal of India - S.H.F. Manekshaw
• The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V.Raman
• The first President of Indian Republic -  Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• The first Prime Minister of free India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore
• The first President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee
• The first Governor General of free India - Lord Mountbatten
• The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India - C. Rajgopalachari
• The first man who introduced printing press in India - James Hicky
• The first Indian to join the I.C.S - Satyendra Nath Tagore
• The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award - Dr. Radhakrishnan
• The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen
• The first Person to receive Jnanpith award - Sri Shankar Kurup
• The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha - Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar

The First in India -  Female

• The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra - Nirja Bhanot
• The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi
• The first woman to cross English Channel - Aarti Saha
• The first woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• The first woman Airline Pilot - Durba Banerjee
• The first woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886
• The first woman Olympic medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000
• The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabjee
• The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly - Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
• The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State - Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
• The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian Bethew
• The first woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
• The first woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora
• The first woman Air Vice Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya
• The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
• The first woman IPS officer - Mrs. Kiran Bedi
• The first lady to become Miss World - Rita Faria
• The first woman judge in Supreme Court - Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
• The first woman Ambassador - Miss C.B. Muthamma
• The first woman Governor of a state in free India - Mrs Sarojini Naidu
• The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly - Shanno Devi
• The first woman Prime Minister - Mrs Indira Gandhi
• The first woman Minister in a Government - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• The first woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal
• The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
• The first woman President of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant
• The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Dayal
• The first woman Judge - Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
• The first woman to receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
• The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Mrs Indira Gandhi
• The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashpurna Devi
• The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
• The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court - Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
• The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi