First in India : Famous Personalities

Famous Personalities First In India

 

Famous Persons who accomplish any achievement for the first time set a benchmark for others to follow and as such make the whole nation to feel proud on them.

Sr. No.	List of First in India (Male)	Name
1	First Prime Minister of free India	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
2	First batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match	Sachin Tendulkar
3	First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
4	First President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
5	First Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata
6	First Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
7	First president of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
8	First Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
9	First Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
10	First British Governor General of India	Lord William Bentinck
11	First British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
12	First Governor General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
13	First and the last Indian Governer General of free India	C. Rajgopalachari
14	First man who introduce printing press in India	James Hicky
15	First Indian to join the I.C.S.	Satendranath Tagore
16	First Indian man in space	Rakesh Sharma
17	First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing Full term	Morarji Desai
18	First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
19	First Cheif of Army Staff	Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
20	First Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council	S.P. Sinha
21	First President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakir Hussain
22	First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
23	First Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Manekshaw
24	First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	C.V. Raman
25	First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award	Dr. Radhakrishnan
26	First Indian to cross English Channel	Mihir Sen
27	First person to receive Gyanpith award	Sri Shankar Kurup
28	First Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
29	First Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
30	First Education Minister	Abul Kalam Azad
31	First Home Minister of India	Sardar Vallabha Bhai Patel
32	First Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukharji
33	First Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
34	First judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
35	First person to receive Paramveer Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
36	First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
37	First Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
38	First person to receive Magsaysay Award	Achrya Vinoba Bhave
39	First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine	Hargovind Khurana
40	First Chinese traveller to visit India	Fahein
41	First person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
42	First person to resign from the central cabinate	Shyama Prasad Mukharji
43	First foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna	Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
44	First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
45	First Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hiralal J. Kania
46	First President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
47	First batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin