First in India

First in India
1.	British Governor General of Bengal		Warren Hastings
2.	Governor General of Independent India		Lord Mountbatten
3.	Commander-in-chief of Free India		General Roy Bucher
4.	Cosmonaut		Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
5.	Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India		Babar
6.	Field Marshal		S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
7.	Indian Governor General of Indian Union		C. Rajagopalachari
8.	Indian I.C.S. Officer		Satyendra Nath Tagore
9.	Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council		Sri S.P. Sinha
10.	Indian to swim across English Channel		Mihir Sen
11.	Indian woman to swim across-English Channel		Miss Arati Saha
12.	Man to climb Mount Everest		Tenzing Norgay
13.	Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen		Phu Dorjee
14.	Man to climb Mount Everest twice		Nwang Gombu
15.	Nobel Prize winner		Rabindra Nath Tagore
16.	President of Indian National Congress		W. C. Banerjee
17.	President of Indian Republic		Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18.	Talkie Film		Alam Ara (1931)
19.	Test Tube Baby (Documented)		Indira
20.	Viceroy of India		Lord Canning
21.	Woman Minister of Indian Union		Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
22.	Woman Chief Minister of State		Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani
23.	Woman Governor		Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
24.	Woman President of Indian National Congress		Dr. Annie Besant
25.	Woman Prime Minister		Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26.	Woman Speaker of a State Assembly		Mrs. Shanno Devi
27.	Prime Minister of India		Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28.	Muslim President of Indian Union		Dr. Zakir Hussain
29.	Speaker of Lok Sabha		G. V. Mavlankar
30.	Woman to climb mount Everest		Bachhendri Pal
31.	Woman Judge in Supreme Court		Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi
32.	Woman Chief Justice of a High Court		Smt. Leela Seth
33.	Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen)		Kalpana Chawla
34.	The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics		Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)
35.	The First Indian World Chess Champion		Vishwanathan Anand
36.	India's first paperless Newspaper		The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)
37.	India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer		Sonali Banerjee
38.	The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha		G. M. C. Balyogi
39.	The first Vice-President of India to die in harness		Krishna Kant
40.	The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century		Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing  against England)
41.	The first woman Air Vice-Marshal		P. Bandopadhyaya
42.	The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor		Ms. Kiran Bedi
43.	The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident		Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)
44.	The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India		K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)
45.	The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament		Sania Mirza (2003)
46.	The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship		Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)
47.	The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD		Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
48.	The highest individual test scorer of India		Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the  first test in Multan against Pakistan)
49.	The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times		Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004)
50.	The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S.		Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)
51.	The first Sikh Prime Minister of India		Dr. Manmohan Singh
52.	The first woman Director General of Police of a State		Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)
53.	The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief		MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)
54.	The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army		Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)
55.	The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming		Bula Chaudhury
56.	The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal		Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay
57.	The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years		Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)
58.	India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title		Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad)
59.	The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon		Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)
60.	The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km.		Budhia (May 2006)
61.	The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police)		Letika Saran
62.	The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole		Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006)
63.	The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship		Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006)
64.	The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title		Preeti Desai (2006)
65.	The first woman President of the Republic of India		Pratibha Patil