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 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 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)
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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)
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65. The first woman President of the Republic of India – |
Pratibha Patil |