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First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship - I.N.S. Vikrant

First and the last Indian Governor General of free India - C. Rajgopalachari

First Army Chief of Free India - Kodandera Madappa Cariappa

First British Governor General of Bengal - Lord Warren Hasting  (1774 - 1885)

First British Governor General of India - Lord William Bentinck (1833 - 1835)

First British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning

First Chief Army Staff - General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Ji Jadeja

First Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen

First Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Hirala J. Kania

First Chief of Air Staff - Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst

First Chief of Army Staff - Gen Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

First Chief of Naval Staff of India - Vice Admiral R.D Katari

First Chinese traveler to visit India - Fahein (फाह्यान) 

First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force - Subroto Mukherjee

First cosmonaut - Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma

First Defence Minister of India - Baldev Singh Chokkar

First female Jawan in the Army - Shanti Tigga

First Field Marshal - Sam Manekshaw

First Field Marshal of India - S.H.F. Manekshaw (1914 - 2008)

First Governor General of free India - Lord Mountbatten

First in India woman President - Pratibha Devi Singh Patil

First India Education Minister - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

First India Home Minister - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (The Iron Man of India)

First Indian Air Chief of India - Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee

First Indian Air Marshal - S. Mukherjee

First Indian and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultana 

First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr Nagendra Singh

First Indian Naval Chief - Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

First Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)

First Indian Submarine - I.N.S. Kalvari

First Indian to join Viceroy’s executive council - S.P. Sinha

First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award - Dr Radhakrishnan

First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore

First Indian woman Air Vice Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya

First Indian woman appeared on Time Magazine cover - Parveen Babi

First Indian woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian Bethew

First Indian woman Chief Justice of High Court - Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)

First Indian woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

First Indian woman Governor of a state in free India - Mrs Sarojini Naidu

First Indian woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886

First Indian woman IPS officer - Mrs Kiran Bedi (1972)

First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court - Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

First Indian woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabjee

First Indian woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora

First Indian woman Minister in a Government - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

First Indian woman Olympic Medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000

First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Dayal

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 Indian woman Prime Minister - Mrs Indira Gandhi (sworn on January 24, 1966)

First Indian woman Speaker of a State Assembly - Shanno Devi

First Indian woman to become Miss World - Rita Faria

First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav

First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot - IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi

First Indian woman to receive Ashoka Chakra - Nirja Bhanot

First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Mrs Indira Gandhi

First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa

First Indian woman to win Gold Medal in Asian Games - Kamlijit Sandhu

First Indian woman who got Graduates degree - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

First large scale Atomic Reactor of India - Apsara

First man in Space from India - Rakesh Sharma

First Medium-Range Missile - Agni

First Muslim President of India - Dr Zakir Hussain

First Muslim President of Indian National Congress - Badruddin Tayyabji

First Muslim President of Indian Republic - Dr Zakir Hussain

First Nuclear Centre - Tarapur

First Nuclear Submarine of India - I.N.S. Chakra

First Param Vir Chakra Winner - Major Somnath Sharma

First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine - Hargovind Khurana

First person to get Nobel Prize in Physics from India - C.V.Raman

First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Ang Dorjee

First Person to receive Jnanpith award - Sri Shankar Kurup

First person to receive Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave

First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics - Amartya Sen

First person to receive Stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu

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

First President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee

First President of the Indian Republic - Dr Rajendra Prasad

First Prime Minister of free India -Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh

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

First Vice-President of India - Dr Radhakrishnan

First woman Ambassador from India - Mrs C.B. Muthamma

First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State - Mrs Sucheta Kripalani

First woman in India to climb mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal

First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize - Divya Ajith Kumar

First woman Judge of India - Anna Chandy (She became the judge in a district court in 1937)

First woman President of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant

First woman to cross the English Channel from India - Aarti Saha

First woman to receive Jnanpith (ज्ञानपीठ) Award from India - Ashapoorna Devi

First women IAS officer - Anna Rajam Malhotra (1951)

India's first test tube baby - “Durga” (Kanupriya Agarwal)

The First Indian to join the I.C.S - Satyendra Nath Tagore

The first man who introduced printing press in India - James Hicky (Bengal Gazette)

The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha - Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar

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