First Persons in India : 

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President – Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Prime-Minister – Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

Governor-General of Independent India – Lord Lewis Mountbatten

Indian Governor-General of Independent India – Chakravarti Rajgopalachari

Speaker of Loksabha – Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).

Vice-President – Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

Home Minister – Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Finance Minister of India – R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

Governor of RBI – Sir Osborne Smith

First Woman Chief Minister – Sucheta Kriplani

Chief Election Commissioner – Sukumar Sen

Chief Justice of Supreme Court – Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya

Woman Governor – Sarojini Naidu

Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha – Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

President of National Congress – Womesh Chandra Banerjee

First President of Indian Science Congress – Sir Asutosh Mukherjee

Foreigner Awardees’ Of Bharat Ratna – Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Nobel Prize Winner – Rabindra Nath Tagore

First Lady Doctor – Anandibai Joshi

Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ – Indira Gandhi

Indian Who Won the Grammy Award – Pt. Ravi Shankar

Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner – Amrita Pritam, 1956

Woman To Receive Nobel Prize – Mother Teresa

Won the Booker Prize – Arundhati Roy for her novel “The God of Small Things” (1997).

Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu

Literature Who Was Awarded Murti Devi Purskar – C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)

Writer Who Was Awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ – Ramvilas Sharma

Raman-Magsaysay Awardee – Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Devika Rani (1969)

Magsaysay Award – Vinoba Bhave, 1958

Miss World – Reita Faria in 1966

Miss Asia Pacific – Zeenat Aman in 1970

Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen in 1994

Miss Earth – Nicole Faria in 2010

Sound Film – Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani

Colour Film – Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani

First Viceroy of India : Lord Canning

The first and the last Governor-general of Independent India : C Rajagopalachari

First Education minister of India : Abul Kalam Azad

First Speaker of the Lok Sabha : Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

First Indian Justice (President) at the International Court of Justice : Nagendra Singh

First Commander-in Chief of Independent India : Generaal Kariappa

First Field marshal of India :general Manekshaw

First Muslim President of Indian National Congress : Badruddin Tyabji

First Indian to be successful in ICS (Indian Civil Service) : Satyendranath Tagore

First Indian who became the member of the British Parliament : Dadabhai Naoroji

First Indian Pilot : J R D Tata

First Indian Scientist who received Nobel Prize : C V Raman

First Indian who was honoured with Bharat Ratna : Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

First Person who received Gyanpeeth Award : G Shankara Kurup

First Indian who went to the space : Rakesh Sharma

First Indian who crossed English Channel : Mihir Sen