1. First Governor of Bengal – Lord Clive
( 1757 – 60)
2. Last Governor of Bengal – Lord Hastings
( 1772 – 74)
3. First Governor Genral of Bengal – Lord
Hastings ( 1774 – 75)
4. First British Governor Gerneral of
India – Lord Bentinck ( 1833 - 35)
5. First British Viceroy of India – Lord Canning
( 1856 – 62)
6. First President of Indian Rebublic –
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
7. First Prime Minister of free India –
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
8. First Indian to win Nobel Prize –
Rabindranath Tagore
9. First Muslim President of Indian
National Congress –Baduddin Tyabji
10. First Muslim President of India – Dr.
Zakir Hussain
11. First Governor General of free India –
Lord Mountbatten
12. First and last Indian Governor General
of India – C. Rajgopalachari
13. First man who introduced printing
press in India – James Hicky
14. First Indian to join the I.C.S –
Satyendra Nath Tagore
15. India’s first Cosmonaut – Rakesh Sharma
16. First Prime Minister of India who
resigned without completing the full term – Morarji Desai
17. First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s
executive council – S. P. Sinha
18. First President of India who died
while in office – Dr. Zakir Hussain
19. First Prime Minister of India who did
not face the Parliament – Charan Singh
20. First Field Marshal of India – Field Marshal
S.H.F. J. Maneckshaw
21. First Indian to get Nobel Prize in
Physics – C.V. Raman
22. First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna
award – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
23. First Indian to cross English Channel –
Mihir Sen
24. First Person to receive Jananpith award – G. Shanker Kurup
25. First Speaker of the Lok Sabha – G V
Mavalankar
26. First Vice – President of India – Dr.
S. Radhakrsihnan
27. First Home Minister Of India – Sardar Vallabhbahi
Patel
28. First Person to reach Mt. Everest
without oxygen – Sherpa Ang Dorjee
29. First person to reach the South Pole –
Col J K Bajaj
30. First Person to get Param Vir Chakra –
Major Somnath Sharma
31. First Chief Election Commissioner –
Sukumar Sen
32. First Person to receive Magsaysay
Award – Vinoba Bhave
33. First Indian Origin person to receive
Nobel Prize in Medicine – Hargobind Khurana
34. First Person to receive Nobel Prize in
Economics – Amartya Sen
35. First Chief Justice of Supreme Court –
Justice H. J. Kania
36. First Indian to win back to back
medals in Olympics – Sushil Kumar ( 2008, 2012)
37. First Man to climb Mount Everest Twice – Nwang Gombu
38. First Man to Climb Mt. Everest 19
times – Apa Sherpa
39. First Indian Chess Grandmaster –
Vishwanathan Anand ( 1988)
40. First Indian Pilot – J.R. D. Tata (
1929)
