First in India

1. British Governor General of Bengal Warren Hastings 2. Governor General of Independent India Lord Mountbatten  3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General Roy Bucher  4. Cosmonaut Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma  5. Emperor of Mughal Dynasty in India Babar  6. Field Marshal S. H. F. J. Manekshaw  7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union C. Rajagopalachari  8. Indian I.C.S. Officer Satyendra Nath Tagore  9. Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council Sri S. P. Sinha  10. Indian to swim across English Channel Mihir Sen  11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel Miss Arati Saha 12. Man to climb Mount Everest Tenzing Norgay  13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen Phu Dorjee  14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice Nwang Gombu  15. Nobel Prize winner Rabindra Nath Tagore 16. President of Indian National Congress W. C. Banerjee  17. President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad  18. Talkie Film Alam Ara (1931)  19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) Indira  20. Viceroy of India Lord Canning  21. Woman Minister of Indian Union Rajkumari Amrit Kaur  22. Woman Chief Minister of State Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani  23. Woman Governor Mrs. Sarojini Naidu  24. Woman President of Indian National Congress Dr. Annie Besant  25. Woman Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi  26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly Mrs. Shanno Devi  27. Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru  28. Muslim President of Indian Union Dr. Zakir Hussain  29. Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar 30. Woman to climb mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi 32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court Smt. Leela Seth 33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) Kalpana Chawla 34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) 35. The First Indian World Chess Champion Vishwanathan Anand 36. India's first paperless Newspaper The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) 37. India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer Sonali Banerjee 38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha G. M. C. Balyogi 39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness Krishna Kant 40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century Mithali Raj  (August 2002 playing  against England) 41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya 42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor Ms. Kiran Bedi 43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) 44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) 45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament Sania Mirza (2003) 46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) 47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD Mrs. Ranjana Kumar 48. The highest individual test scorer of India Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the  first test in Multan against Pakistan) 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times Rahul Drgvid (playing test against  Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) 50. The first Odisha woman to top I.A.S. Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) 51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh 52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttarakhand) 53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) 54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) 55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming Bula Chaudhury 56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay 57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) 58. India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) 59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) 60. The first wonder child of Odisha only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. Budhia (May 2006) 61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran 62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) 63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) 64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title Preeti Desai (2006) 65. The first woman President of the Republic of India Pratibha Patil