Lists Of First Men in India
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aMale Personalities one who revolutionaries ideas shaped the Indian Society by contributing something new which was ever contributed by any Indians. The list is composed of all those human explorations and adventures, expeditions, discoveries and inventions which were made first time in the history of India.
| S.No | Field | Name of the Person | Year | Birth Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Governor of Bengal | Lord Robert Clive | 1758 | England |
| 2 | First Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings | 1773 | England |
| 3 | First Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck | 1828 | England |
| 4 | First President of Indian Republic | Dr Rajendra Prasad | 1950 | Bihar |
| 5 | First Field Marshal | Gen SFJ Manekshaw | 1971 | Punjab |
| 6 | First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award | G Shankar Kurup | 1965 | Cochin, Kerala |
| 7 | First Indian to swim across Indian Channel | Mihir Sen | 1958 | Bengal, British India |
| 8 | First Indian Nobel laureate | Rabindranath Tagore | 1913 | Kolkata, Bengal |
| 9 | First Pilgrim to visit India | Megasthenes | 302 BC | Syria |
| 10 | First Chinese Pilgrim to visit India | Fa-Hien | 399 | China |
| 11 | First Indian Pilot | JRD Tata | 1929 | Paris, France |
| 12 | First man to climb Mt Everest twice | Nawang Gombu | 1965 | Nepal |
| 13 | First Indian Governor General of Independent India | C Rajgopalachari | 1948 | Thorapalli, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 14 | First Governor General of India (After Independence) | Lord Louis Mountbatten | 1947 | England |
| 15 | First Commander in Chief of Free India | Gen KM Cariappa | 1949 | Kodagu, British India (Now Karnataka) |
| 16 | First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr Nagendra Singh | 1985 | Rajasthan |
| 17 | First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna Award | C Rajgopalachari | 1954 | Thorapalli, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| Dr S Radhakrishanan | Tiruthani, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) | |||
| C. V. Raman | Trichy, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) | |||
| 18 | First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr Zakir Hussain | 1967 | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| 19 | First Indian to win Palk Strait Ocean Swimming Contest | Baidyanath Nath | ||
| 20 | First President of Indian national Congress | Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1885 | Calcutta, British India (Now Kolkata) |
| 21 | First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize | CV Raman (Physics) | 1930 | Trichy, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 22 | India’s First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen | 1950 | Bengal |
| 23 | First Scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science | Dr Hargovind Khurana | 1968 | Raipur, Punjab |
| 24 | First Scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 2009 | Cuddalore, Tamilnadu |
| 25 | First Indian-born to get Nobel Prize in Peace | Kailash Sathyarthi | 2014 | Madhya Pradesh |
| 26 | First Sports Person to get Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar | 2014 | Maharashtra |
| 27 | First Chief Minister to die in Office | CN Annadurai, | 1969 | Tamilnadu |
| 28 | First Indian Sound Film Director | Alam Ara, directed by Ardeshir Irani | 1931 | Pune, Maharashtra |
| 29 | First Indigenously made colour film director | Kisan Kanya, directed by Moti B | 1937 | Sind, Pakistan |
| 30 | First Chief Justice of India | Justice Hiralal J kania | 1950 | Surat, Gujarat |
| 31 | First Indian to win Stalin Award | Saiffudin Kichlu | 1952 | Amritsar, Punjab |
| 32 | First Education Minister of Independent India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | 1947 | Saudi Arabia |
| 33 | First Prime Minister of Independent India | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | 1947 | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh |
| 34 | First Home Minister of Independent India | Sardar Vallahbhai Patel | 1947 | |
| 35 | First Vice President of Independent India | Dr S Radhakrishnan | 1952 | Tiruthani, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 36 | First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst | 1947 | England |
| 37 | First Indian Air Chief of India | Air Marshal S Mukherjee | 1954 | Culcutta |
| 38 | First Chief of Army Staff | Gen M Rajendra Singh | 1955 | Katiawar (Now Gujarat) |
| 39 | First Chief of Naval Staff of India | Vice Admiral RD Katari | 1958 | Chingleput, Madras Presidency ( Now Tamilnadu) |
| 40 | First Sikh President of India | Gyani Zail Singh | 1982 | Punjab |
| 41 | First Indian to climb Mt Everest without Oxygen Cylinder | Sherpa Phu Dorjee | 1984 | Nepal |
| 42 | First Speaker of Lok Sabha | GV Mavlankar | 1952 | Vadodara, Gujarat |
| 43 | First Indian Male Recipient of Oscar Award | Satyajitray | 1992 | Calcutta, British India (Now Kolkata) |
| 44 | First Finance Minister of India | RK Shanmukham Chetty | 1947 | Coimbatore, Tamilnadu |
| 45 | First Indian to win Ramon Magasaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave | 1958 | Raigad, British India |
| 46 | First President of India to die in office | Dr Zakir Hussain | 1969 | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| 47 | First British Prime Minister to visit India | Harold Mc Millan | 1958 | England |
| 48 | First Indian Space Tourist | Santosh George | 2008 | Kerala |
| 49 | First Indian to reach South Pole | Col IK Bajaj | 1989 | Punjab |
| 50 | First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower | 1959 | USA |
| 51 | First Indian Cosmonaut | Rakesh Sharma | 1984 | Punjab |
| 52 | First Indian Prime Minister to resign from Office | Morarji Desai | 1979 | Gujarat |
| 53 | First Foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan | 1987 | Pakistan |
| 54 | First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics | Dr Amartya Sen | 1998 | Kolkata, Bengal |
| 55 | First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Sardar Vallabhai Patel | 1947 | Gujarat |
| 56 | First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy | Wilson Jones | 1958 | Maharashtra |
| 57 | First Law Minister of India | BR Ambedkar | 1947 | Madhya Pradesh |
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