Firsts in India
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| First British Governor General | Dattaram Doiphode |
| First British Governor General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First Chief Justice of India | HJ Kania |
| First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General Sir Roy Bucher |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General K.M.Cariappa |
| First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomos Elmhirst |
| First Indian Air Chief | Air Marshal S Mukherjee |
| First Chief of Army Staff | General M Rajendra Singh |
| First Chief of Naval Staff | Vice Admiral R D Katari |
| First Cosmonaut | Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma |
| First Female Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu |
| First Female Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution | Chandramukhi Basu |
| First Female Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| First Female Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| First Female Physician | Kadambini Ganguly |
| First Field Marshal | SHFJ Manekshaw |
| First Governor-General of Indian Union | C Rajagopalachari |
| First Graduate in Medicine | Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty |
| First Indian to get an Oscar | Bhanu Athaiya |
| First Indian to reach the South Pole | Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj |
| First Indian to win a major literary award in the United States | Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| First Indian to win an Olympic medal | Norman Pritchard |
| First Indian ICS Officer | Satyendranath Tagore |
| First Indian Man to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Indian Woman to swim across the English Channel | Miss Arati Saha |
| First Magsaysay Award Winner | Acharya Vinod Bhave |
| First Nobel Prize Winner | Rabindranath Tagore |
| First President of the Indian National Congress | W C Bonnerjee |
| First President of the India | Rajendra Prasad |
| First Prime Minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Vallabhbhai Patel |
| First Talkie Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| First Woman President of the Indian National Congress | Annie Besant |
| First Woman Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| First Woman Minister | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First Woman Chief Minister of a State | Sucheta Kripalani |
| First Woman Governor | Sarojini Naidu |
| First Woman central Minister | Vijayalakshmi Pandit |
| First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Mrs Shanno Devi |
| First Woman Airline Pilot | Durga Banerjee |
| First Woman to Win Asiad Gold | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| First Woman to Win an Olympic medal | Karnam Malleswari |
| First Woman Judge of Supreme Court | Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi |
| First Woman IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi |
| First Woman to Win Miss Universe Title | Sushmita Sen |
| First Woman to win the Ford Supermodel of the World (contest) | Bipasha Basu |
| First Woman to Win Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| First Woman to win Miss World title | Reita Faria |
| First to win Celbrity Big Brother | Shilpa Shetty |
| First Actor to act in 10 roles | Kamal Haasan |
| First Formula 1 Race Driiver | Narain Karthikeyan |
| First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe | Indrani Rehman |
