List of First In India





List of First in India (Male)

 First Prime Minister of Free India          Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru

 First Batsman to score double
century in one Day International            Sachin Tendulkar
Cricket Match

 First man to have Climbed                      Nawang Gombu
Mount Everest Twice

 First President of Indian                          Dr.Rajindra Prasad 
Republic 

 First Indian Pilot                                      J.R.D Tata

 First Indian to win Noble                         Rabindranath Tagore 
Prize

 First President of Indian                           Badruddin Tayyabji
National Congress

 First Muslim President                             Dr. Zakir Hussain
of India

 First British Governor                              Lord Mountbatten
General of India

 First Man who Introduce                          James Hickey
Printing Press in India

 First Indian to join I.C.S                         Satendranath Tagore

 First Indian Man in Space                       Rakesh Sharma

 First Prime Minister of
India who resigned                                  Morarji Desai
without completing
full term

 First Indian Commander-in-                   General Cariappa
Chief of India

 The first chief of Army Staff                  Gen. Maharaj Rajendra
                                                                Singhji

 First Indian Member of                           SP Sinha
the Viceroy's executive
council

 First President of India                            Dr.Zakir Hussain
who died while in office

 First PM of India who                             Charan Singh
did not face the parliament 

 First Field Marshal of India                     S.H.F Manekshaw

 First Indian to get Noble Prize                 C.V. Raman
in Physics                                

 First Indian to receive Bharat                   Dr. Radhakrishnan 
Ratna Award

 First Indian to cross English                     Mihir Sen 
Channel

 First-person to receive                              Sri Shankar Kurup
Gyanpith Award

 First Speaker of Lok Sabha                      Vasudev Mavalankar

 First Vice President of India                    Dr. S Radhakrishnan

 First Education Minister                          Abul Kalam Azad

 First Home Minister of India                   Sardar Vallabha Bhai Patel

 First Indian Air Chief Marshal                S. Mukharji

 First Indian Naval Chief                          Vice Admiral RD Katari

 First Judge of International                      Dr. Nagendra Singh 
Court of Justice                  

 First Person to receive                              Major Somnath Sharma 
Paramveer Chakra

 First Person to reach Mount                     Sherpa Anga Dorjee
Everest without oxygen

 First Chief Election                                  Sukumar Sen
Commissioner          

 First Person to receive                              Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Magsaysay Award      

 First Person of Indian Origin                    Hargovind Khurrana
to receive Noble Prize in
Medicine

 First Chinese Traveller to                         Fahein
Visit India

 First Person to receive Stalin                   Saifuddin Kitchlu
Prize

 First Person to resign from the                 Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Central Cabinet                       

 First Foreigner to receive                          Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 
Bharat Ratna

 First Person to receive Nobel                   Amartya Sen
Prize in Economics

 Firat Chief Justice of                                Justice Hiralal J. Kania 
Supreme Court

 First President of Indian                           W.C Bannerjee
National Congress

 First Batsman to score                              Mohammad. Azharuddin
Three test century in Three
Successive tests on debut