List of First in India – In today’s class we will be discussing about First in India list GK. Here we will discuss List of First in India both Male and Female, like first PM of India, first Chief of Army Staff of India, first female honours graduate of India, first Indian female to win gold in Asian games, and many more.
List of First in India Male
| First Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| First President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| First Muslim President of India | Dr Zakir Hussain |
| First British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck (1833 – 1835) |
| First British Governor General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hasting (1774 – 1885) |
| First British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| First Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First and the last Indian Governor General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| The first man who introduced printing press in India | James Hicky (Bengal Gazette) |
| The First Indian to join the I.C.S | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| First President of the Indian Republic | Dr Rajendra Prasad |
| First man in Space from India | Rakesh Sharma |
| First Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| First Indian to join Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| First President of India who died while in office | Dr Zakir Hussain |
| First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr Zakir Hussain |
| First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw (1914 – 2008) |
| First person to get Nobel Prize in Physics from India | C.V.Raman |
| First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr Radhakrishnan |
| First Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| First Person to receive Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| First Vice-President of India | Dr Radhakrishnan |
| First India Education Minister | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| First India Home Minister | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Indian Air Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| First Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr Nagendra Singh |
| First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Ang Dorjee |
| First person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| First person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| First Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
List of First in India Female
| List of First in India Female | Names |
| First Indian woman to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| First Indian woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| First woman Ambassador from India | Mrs C.B. Muthamma |
| First Indian woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| First Indian woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi (sworn on January 24, 1966 |
| First Indian woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First woman in India to climb mount everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| First woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| First Indian woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijay Laxmi Pandit |
| First woman Judge of India | Anna Chandy (She became the judge in a district court in 1937) |
| First Indian woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| First Indian woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| First Indian woman Olympic Medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First Indian woman to win Gold Medal in Asian Games | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| First Indian woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| First Indian woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| First Indian woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| First Indian woman Chief Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| First Indian woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| First Indian woman Air ViceMarshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| First woman to receive Jnanpith Award from India | Ashapoorna Devi |
| First Indian woman IPS officer | Mrs Kiran Bedi (1972) |
| First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| First women IAS officer | Anna Hazare (1975) |
| First Indian and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultana |
| First woman to cross the English Channel from India | Aarti Saha |
| First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| First Indian woman appeared on Time Magazine cover | Parveen Babi |
| First Indian woman who got Graduates degree | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| India’s first test tube baby | “Durga” (Kanupriya Agarwal) |
