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First Person in India List
| Designation | Person |
|---|---|
| First Governor of Bengal | Lord Clive (1757-60) |
| Last Governor of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1772-74) |
| First Governor-General of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1774-85) |
| First Governor-General of India | Lord William Bentinck (1833-35) |
| Last Governor-General and first Viceroy of India | Lord Canning (1856-62) |
| First President of India National Congress | W. C. Banerjee |
| First and Last Indian Governor-General of Independent India | C. Rajgopalachari (21/06/1948-25/01/1950) |
| First Indian to pass ICS | Satyendra Nath Tagore (1863) |
| First Indian ICS Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore (1864) |
| First Governor-General of India (after independence and last British Governor-General of India) | Lord Louis Mountbatten (15 Aug, 1947-20 June, 1948) |
| First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| First temporary President of the Constituent Assembly | Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha |
| First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General K. M. Cariappa |
| First Indian Nobel Laureate | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| First Field Marshal | General S.F.J. Manekshaw |
| The President of the Constituent Assembly | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award | G. Shankar Kurup |
| First Muslim President of the Indian Republic | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| First Indian to win Palk-Strait Ocean Swimming Contest | Baidya Nath |
| First Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar (1952-57) |
| First-person to make Printing Press popular in India | James Hicky |
| First Education Minister of Independent India | Maulana Abu] Kalam Azad |
| First President of the Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Prime Minister of Independent India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First Home Minister of Independent India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Vice-President of Independent India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst |
| First Indian Air Chief of India | Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee |
| First Chief of Army Staff | General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Ji Jadeja |
| First Chief of Naval Staff of India | Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari |
| First CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) of India | General Bipin Rawat |
| First Person to get Paramvir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize | C. V Raman (Physics) |
| First Scientist of Indian origin, to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science | Dr. Hargobind Khorana |
| First Chinese pilgrim to visit India | Fa-Hien |
| First Scientist of Indian origin to win Nobel Prize in Physics | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar |
| First NSA (National Security Advisor) of India | Brajesh Mishra |
| First Indian to win Stalin Award | Saifuddin Kitchlew |
| First Indian to win Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958) |
| India’s first minister to resign from Union Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950) |
| India’s first Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayab Ji |
| First Chief Justice of India | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
| First Person to submit the proposal of Indian Independence in a Congress Session | Maulana Hasrat Mohani |
| First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without Oxygen cylinder | Sherpa Phu Dorji (Climbed on 9th May 1984) |
| First foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| First Indian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics | Dr. Amartya Sen |
| First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| First Indian to reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan (1960) |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office | Morarji Desai |
| First President of India to die in office | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| First Man to climb Mt. Everest twice | Nawang Gombu Sherpa |
| First Indian to reach the South Pole | Col. J. K. Bajaj |
| First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| First British Prime Minister to visit India | Harold Mc Millan |
| First Indian author to get Anderson Award | Ruskin Bond |
| First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy | Wilson Jones |
| First Indian Space Tourist | Santhosh George Kulangara |
| First Chief Justice of India (Born in Independent India) | Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia (September 29, 1947) |
| First Indian to win Golden Globe Award | A.R. Rahman |
| First Russian Prime Minister to visit India | Nikolai A. Bulganin |
| First individual Gold Medalist at Olympics | Abhinav Bindra |
| First Indian member of British Parliament | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| First Indian to win a medal at World Badminton Championship | Prakash Padukone |