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 Bentic (1833 - 35)
5. Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India
Lord Canning (1856-62)
6. First President of Indian National Congress
W. C. Banerjee
7. First Indian Governor General of Independent India
C. Rajgopalachari (21.06.1948 - 25.01.1950)
8. First Indian to pass ICS
Surendra Nath Banerjee
9. First Indian I.C.S. Officer
Satyendra Nath Tagore
10. First Governor General of India (after independence)
Lord Louis Mountbatten (15 Aug, 1947 - 20 June, 1948)
11. First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space)
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
12. First temporary President of the Constitutent Assembly
Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha
13. First Commander-in-Chief of Free India
General K.M. Cariappa
14. First Indian Nobel Laureate
Rabindra Nath Tagore
15. irst Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice
Dr. Nagendra Singh
16. First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
17. First Field Marshal
General S.F.J. Manekshaw
18. The President of Constituent Assembly
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
19. First Indian to swim across the English Channel
Mihir Sen
20. First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award
G. Shankar Kurup
21. First Muslim President of Indian Republic
Dr. Zakir Hussain
22. First Indian to win Palk-Strait Ocean Swimming Contest
Baidyanath
23. First Speaker of Lok Sabha
G.V. Mavlankar (1952-57)
24. First person to make Printing Press popular in India
James Hicky
25. First Education Minister of Independent India
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
26. First President of Indian Republic
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
27. First Prime Minister of Independent India
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28. First Home Minister of Independent India
Sardar Vallabh Bhai
29. First Vice- President of Independent India
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
30. First Chief of Air Staff
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
31. First Indian Air Chief of India
Air Marshal S. Mukherjee
32. First Chief of Army Staff
General M. Rajendra Singh
33. First Chief of Naval Staff of India
Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari
34. First large-scale Atomic Reactor of India
Apsara (1956)
35. First Person to get Paramvir Chakra
Major Somnath Sharma
36. First Atomic Submarine of India
I.N.S. Chakra
37. First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize
C. V. Raman (Physics)
38. First Indian Submarine
I.N.S. Cauveri
39. First Scientist of Indian origin, to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science
Dr. Hargovind Khurana
40. First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship
I.N.S. Vikrant
41. First Chinese pilgrim to visit India
Fa - hien
42. First Medium Range Missile
Agni
43. First e-business News Paper of India
Financial Express
44. First Scientist of Indian origin to win Nobel Prize in Physics
Subrahmanium Chandrashekhar
45. First Indian Missile
Prithvi
46. First Indian to win Stalin Award
Saiffudin Kichlu
47. India's first Nuclear Centre
Tarapur
48. First Indian to Win Magsaysay Award
Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958)
49. India's first Open University
Andhra Pradesh Open University
50. India's first Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes
P.V. Narasimha Rao
51. India's first minister to resign from Union Cabinet
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)
52. First Asian Games organised
Delhi (in 1951)
53. India's first Election Commissioner
Sukumar Sen
54. First Muslim President of Indian National Congress
Badruddin Tayab Ji
55. First Chief Justice of India
Justice Hiralal J. Kania
56. First Person to submit the proposal of Indian Independnce in a Congress Session
Hasrat Mohani
57. India's first University
Nalanda University
58. First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without Oxy. cylinder
Sherpa Phu Dorji
59. First foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
60. First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics
Dr. Amartya Sen
61. First Army Institute of Information Technology founded
Hyderabad
62. Test Tube Baby of India
Indira (Baby Harsha)
63. First Indian Pilot
J.R.D. Tata (1929)
64. First Indian to reach Antarctica
Lt. Ram Charan (1960)
65. First Post- Office opened in India
Kolkata (1727)
66. First Deputy Prime Minister of India
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
67. First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office
Morarji Desai
68. First Indian Prime Minister to loose an Election
Indira Gandhi
69. First President of India to die in office
Dr. Zakir Hussain
70. First Man to climb Mt. Everest twice
Nawang Gombu
71. First Indian to reach the South Pole
Col. I.K. Bajaj
72. First Indian recipient of 'Oscar Award'
Bhanu Athaiya
73. First American President to visit India
Dwight David Eisenhower
74. First British Prime Minister to visit India
Harold Mc Millon
75. First Indian author to get Anderson Award
Ruskin Bond
76. First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy
Wilson Jones
77. First Indian Space Tourist
Santosh Georgeh
77. First Indian Space Tourist
Santosh George