| First in India (Male) | |
|---|---|
First Governor-General of India | William Bentinck (1828) |
Last Governor-General of India | Lord Mountbatten |
First and last Indian Governor-General of Free India | C. Rajagopalachari |
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General KM Kariappa |
Fist Field Marshal of India | General SHFJ Manekeshaw (1971) |
First Indian to go in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
First Indian to climb the Mount Everest without Oxygen | Sherpa and Dorje |
First Indian to become the Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kaji |
First Chairman of National Human Rights Commission | Rangnath Mishra |
First Indian to get Noble Prize in Physics | C.V. Raman (1930) |
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Literature | Rabindranath Tagore (1913) |
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Economics | Dr. Amartya Sen (1998) |
First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Medicines (Physiology) | Dr. Har Govind Khorana (1968) |
First Indian to get Bharat Ratna | Dr. S Radhakrishnan, C Rajgopalachair and Dr. CV Raman (1954) |
First Person to be Honoured with the Jnanpith Award | G Sankara Kurup (Malayalam) |
First Person to get Bharat Ratna (Posthumously) | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
First Cricketer to get Padma Bhushan | C.K Naidu |
First Indian to get through ICS | Satyendra Nath Tagore (1869) |
First Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen (1958) |
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