First in India
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 Moghul 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 Kaur22. 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 ( 319 runs against Sauth africa)
49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times- Rahul Dravid
50. The first Orissa 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 Uttaranchal)
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 Orissa 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
