| S.N. |
Special Achievement |
Name of personality |
| 1 |
First Governor of Bengal |
Lord Clive(1757-60) |
| 2 |
Last Governor of Bengal |
Warren Hastings(1772-74) |
| 3 |
First Governor General of Bengal |
Warren Hastings (1774-85) |
| 4 |
First Governor General of India |
Lord William Bentinck(1833-35) |
| 5 |
Last Governor General of India and First Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning(1856-62 |
| 6 |
First Indian Governor General of Independent India |
C. Rajgopalachari |
| 7 |
First Governor General of India (After Independence) |
Lord Louis Mountbatten |
| 8 |
First temporary president of the Constituent Assembly |
Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha |
| 9 |
First President of Indian Republic |
Dr Rajendra Prasad |
| 10 |
First Muslim President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 11 |
First President of Indian National Congress |
C. Banerjee |
| 12 |
First Muslim President of Indian National Congress |
Badruddin Tayab Ji |
| 13 |
First Vice-President of Independent India |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 14 |
First Prime Minister of Independent India |
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 15 |
First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office |
Morarji Desai |
| 16 |
First President of India to die in office |
Zakir Hussain |
| 17 |
First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament |
Charan Singh |
| 18 |
First Home Minister of Independent India |
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| 19 |
First Speaker of Lok Sabha (1952-57) |
G.V. Mavlankar |
| 20 |
First Commander-in-chief of free India |
General K.M. Cariappa |
| 21 |
First Chief of Army Staff |
General M.Rajendra Singh |
| 22 |
First field Marshal |
General S.F.J. Manekshaw |
| 23 |
First Indian air Chief of India |
Air Marshal S. Mukherjee |
| 24 |
First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council |
S.P.Sinha |
| 25 |
First person of submit the proposal of Indian independence in a congress Session |
Hasrat Mohani |
| 26 |
First British to visit India |
Hawkins |
| 27 |
First American president to visit India |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 28 |
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India |
Fahien |
| 29 |
First British Prime Minister to visit India |
Harold Mc Millon |
| 30 |
First Indian Nobel laureate |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| 31 |
First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics |
Amartya Sen |
| 32 |
First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize (Physics) |
C.V. Raman |
| 33 |
First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine |
Hargovind Khurana |
| 34 |
First Foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna |
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| 35 |
First Indian author to get Anderson Award |
Ruskin Bond |
| 36 |
First male cricketer to score double hundred in ODIs |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| 37 |
First Indian to win Stalin Award |
Saiffudin Kichlu |
| 38 |
First Indian Space Tourist |
Santosh George |
| 39 |
First pro-boxing bout |
Vijender Singh |
| 40 |
The first cricketer to score a Triple hundred in Tests |
Virender Sehwag |
| 41 |
First Indian chess male player |
Viswanathan Anand |
| 42 |
First Indian to win world Billiards Trophy |
Wilson ones |
| 43 |
First male to swim the Palk Strait in 1954 |
Murugapillai Navratnaswami |
| 44 |
First man to climb Mt. Everest twice |
Nawang Gombu |
| 45 |
First Indian to complete Ironman triathlon |
Nishit Biniwale |
| 46 |
First Indian male shuttler to win a gold at the Commonwealth Games |
Parupalli Kashyap |
| 47 |
First man go to in Space |
Rakesh Sharma |
| 48 |
First Indian to win an Oscar in the technical category |
Resul Pookutty |
| 49 |
First Indian to reach the south Pole |
Col. I.K.Bajaj |
| 50 |
First Indian to win Magsaysay Award |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958) |
| 51 |
First Indian to be ranked world No.1 in junior badminton |
Aditya Joshi |
| 52 |
First open university in india |
Andhra Pradesh Open University |
| 53 |
First Indian man to win the Booker Prize |
Aravind Adiga |
| 54 |
First Indian recipient of ‘Oscar Award’ |
Bhanu Athaiya |
| 55 |
First Indian to win Palk- Strait Ocean Swimming Contest |
Baidyanath Nath |
| 56 |
First Indian Judge of the international Court of Justice |
Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| 57 |
First Law Minister of India |
B.R. Ambedkar |
| 58 |
First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament |
Charan Singh |
| 59 |
First man who was chosen as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador |
Farhan Akhtar |
| 60 |
First Indian I.C.S. Officer |
Satyaendra Nath Tagore |
| 61 |
First awardee of Padma Vibhushan |
Satyendra Nath Bose |
| 62 |
first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service |
Satyendranath Tagore |
| 63 |
First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without using Oxygen cylinder |
Sherpa Phu Dorji |
| 64 |
First Indian Player who hits 200 sixes in One Day International Cricket |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (19th January 2017) |
| 65 |
First Indian Swimmer who represented India in 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne |
Shamsher Khan |
| 66 |
First Indian to win Mr. World Title |
Rohit Khandelwal |
| 67 |
First Sikh President of India |
Gyani Zail Singh |
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