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First in India are the 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 of them. Since these individuals achieve what had not been previously achieved by anyone before them, it becomes indispensable to be aware of them. And as such ‘First Indians’ have been a prominent category in the Static GK section of various competitive examinations like IIFT, Bank PO, SSC etc. Besides being important for these competitive examinations, it is must to know the names of these personalities for acing various interviews including that of prestigious IIMs. So here is a list of ‘First in India’.
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First in India Male
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The first President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
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The first Prime Minister of free India |
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
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The first Indian to win Nobel Prize |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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The first President of Indian National Congress |
W.C. Banerjee |
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The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress |
Badruddin Tayyabji |
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The first Muslim President of India |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
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The first British Governor General of India |
Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
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The first British Governor General of Bengal |
Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) |
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The first British Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning |
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The first Governor General of free India |
Lord Mountbatten |
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The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India |
C. Rajgopalachari |
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The first man who introduced printing press in India |
James Hicky |
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The first Indian to join the I.C.S |
Satyendra Nath Tagore |
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Indias first man in Space |
Rakesh Sharma |
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The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term |
Morarji Desai |
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The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India |
General Cariappa |
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The first Chief of Army Staff |
Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
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The first Indian Member of the Viceroys executive council |
S.P.Sinha |
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The first President of India who died while in office |
Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
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The first Muslim President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
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The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament |
Charan Singh |
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The first Field Marshal of India |
S.H.F. Manekshaw |
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The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics |
C.V.Raman |
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The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award |
Dr. Radhakrishnan |
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The first Indian to cross English Channel |
Mihir Sen |
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The first Person to receive Jnanpith award |
Sri Shankar Kurup |
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The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
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The first Vice-President of India |
Dr. Radhakrishnan |
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The first Education Minister |
Abdul Kalam Azad |
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The first Home minister of India |
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
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The first Indian Air Chief Marshal |
S. Mukherjee |
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The first Indian Naval Chief |
Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
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The first Judge of International Court of Justice |
Dr. Nagendra Singh |
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The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen |
Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
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The first person to get Param Vir Chakra |
Major Somnath Sharma |
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The first Chief Election Commissioner |
Sukumar Sen |
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The first person to receive Magsaysay Award |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine |
Hargovind Khurana |
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The first Chinese traveller to visit India |
Fahein |
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The first person to receive Stalin Prize |
Saifuddin Kitchlu |
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The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
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The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics |
Amartya Sen |
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The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
Justice Hirala J. Kania |
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The first Indian Pilot |
J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
First in India Female
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The first lady to become Miss World |
Rita Faria |
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The first woman judge in Supreme Court |
Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
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The first woman Ambassador |
Miss C.B. Muthamma |
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The first woman Governor of a state in free India |
Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
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The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly |
Shanno Devi |
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The first woman Prime Minister |
Mrs Indira Gandhi |
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The first woman Minister in a Government |
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
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The first woman to climb Mount Everest |
Bachhendri Pal |
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The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice |
Santosh Yadav |
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The first woman President of Indian National Congress |
Mrs Annie Besant |
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The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force |
Harita Kaur Dayal |
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The first woman Graduates |
Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
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The first woman Airline Pilot |
Durba Banerjee |
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The first woman Honours Graduate |
Kamini Roy, 1886 |
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The first woman Olympic medal Winner |
Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
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The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner |
Kamlijit Sandhu |
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The first woman Lawyer |
Cornelia Sorabjee |
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The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly |
Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
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The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State |
Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
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The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission |
Roze Millian Bethew |
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The first woman Director General of Police |
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
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The first woman Judge |
Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
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The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court |
Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
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The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India |
Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
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The first woman Lieutenant General |
Puneeta Arora |
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The first woman Air Vice Marshal |
P. Bandopadhyaya |
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The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines |
Sushma Chawla |
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The first woman IPS officer |
Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
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The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India |
Razia Sultan |
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The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra |
Nirja Bhanot |
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The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award |
Ashapurna Devi |
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The first woman to cross English Channel |
Aarti Saha |
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The first woman to receive Nobel Prize |
Mother Teresa |
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The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna |
Mrs Indira Gandhi |
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The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award |
Ashpurna Devi |
List of First in India – General Knowledge
1) First-ever Indian Institute of Skills of the country at Kanpur in – Uttar Pradesh
2) Maharashtra is the first state in the country to have a cyber police station in each district simultaneously.
3) Maharashtra became the first Indian state to adopt Fly Ash Utilisation Policy
4) First Children’s Court inaugurated in Hyderabad
5) Haryana – first state to implement the benefit of 7th Central Pay Commission
6) Gujarat becomes the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs under Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) scheme.
7) First Happiness Junction of India – Sonepur (Bihar)
8) Punjab government has launched country’s first amphibious bus project at the Harike wetland near – Amritsar.
9) In Himachal Pradesh, the first Cyber Crime Police Station has been opened at – Shimla.
10) Hailakandi has become the first district in Assam to pay wages to tea garden workers through individual bank accounts.
11) Chhattisgarh has become the first state to adopt a resolution welcoming the demonetization of high-value currency notes
12) Palampur Assembly Constituency of Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh became the first e-assembly constituency of the country
13) Jharkhand has become the first state in the country to implement Direct Benefit Transfer in Kerosene
14)First underwater restaurant – Ahmadabad
15) First railway university – Vadodara
16) First rail auto transportation and logistics hub – Chennai
17) First defense park – Ottapalam, Kerala
18) First LCD panel plant – Maharashtra
19) First civil aviation park – Gujarat
20) First ever gender park – Kerala
21) First space park – Bengaluru
22) First digital state – Kerala
23) First cash giving app – CASHe
24) First online interactive heritage portal – Sahapedia
25) First textile university – Surat
26) First tiger cell of India – Dehradun
27) World’s tallest girder rail bridge – Manipur
28) India’s first underground museum – New Delhi
29) India’s first design yatra – Kerala
30) Nagpur – first digital district of India
31) Asia’s biggest Jungle Safari – Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh
32) Asia’s first longest cycle highway – Uttar Pradesh
33) Akodara village (Gujarat) – first digital village in India
34) India’s first liquefied natural gas-driven bus – Kerala
35) First island district – Majuli, Assam
36) First children’s court – Hyderabad
37) First water metro project – Kochi
38) First state to approve sewage and water policy – Rajasthan
39) First state to adopt Street Lighting National program – Rajasthan
40) First state to implement Direct Benefit Transfer in Kerosene – Jharkhand
List of First in India – Question and Answers:
- Who is the first woman most recently participated in wwe?
Ans: Kavita Devi
- Who is the first female officer in Indian army?
Ans: Priya Jhingan
- Who is the first Defence Minister of India?
Answer: Baldev Singh
- Who is the first Indian ever to go to space?
Answer: Rakesh Sharma in 1984
- Who is the first Nobel Prize winner ever in India?
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore 1913
- Who is the first Oscar Awards winner ever in India?
Ans: Satyajit Ray
- Who is the first Indian to win most recent Miss Earth title?
Ans: Nicole Faria in 2010
- Who is the most recent Indian to win first Miss Universal Peace and Humanity Title?
Ans: Ruhi Singh in 2014
- What is the first Inter Continental Ballistic Missile in India most recently launched?
Ans: Agni V launched successfully in 2017(Range – 5500 to 8000 kms)
- Who is the first Prime Minister of India?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
- What is the first silent film in India?
Ans: Raja Harishchandra made by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913
- Who is the first lady judge of Supreme Court in India?
Ans: Mirasahib Fathima Beevi
- Who is the first female railway driver ever in India?
Ans: Surekha Yadav
- Who is the first female Indian to go to space?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla
- Who is the first Indian female ever to win an Olympic medal?
Ans: Karnam Malleswari from Andhra Pradesh
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