First in India
- Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten
- Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
- Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India—General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
- Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
- Speaker of loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
- President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
- Auditor General of India—V. Narahari Rao
- Director of CBI—DP Kohli
- National Security Adviser—Brijesh Mishra
- Governor of RBI—Sir Osborne Smith
- Non-Congress Prime-Minister—Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
- British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings
- Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
- C. S.—Satendra Nath Tagore
- Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950
- Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna—Sachin Tendulkar
- Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen
- Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959
- Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- Novel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
- President of National Congress—Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
- Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar
- First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani
- Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
- Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
- Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
- Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
- Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
- Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
- Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman
- Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Indira Gandhi
- Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters—Mrinal Sen
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan
- Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
- Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976
- Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956
- Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy
- Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya
- Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal
- Woman to received Nobal Prize—Mother Teresa
- Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
- Licensed Pilot—J R D Tata
- Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee
- Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule
- Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994)
- President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra
- Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
- Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans
- Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar
- Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.—Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
- Indian member in British House of Commons—Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
- First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
- Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita
- Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma
- Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi
- Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
- Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt, 1958
- Indian players played Davis Cup—M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
- Tennis Grandslam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati
- Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
- Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr. Meghnad Saha
- Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
- Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
- Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon
- Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
- First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose
- Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
- Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
- An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram
- Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council—Sir. S. P. Sinha
- Leanin Peace Prize—Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C. Niogi
- Woman Doctorate of Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)
- Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi
- Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi
- Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh
- Editor of Time Magazine—Bobby Ghosh
- Director of CBI becoming Governor—Ashwani Kumar
- Person to reach the North Pole—Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
- Person to reach the South Pole—Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
- Nishan-e-Pakistan—Morarji Desai, 1990
- 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
- Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in 1897
- Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
- Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
- Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
- Dadasaheb Phalke Award—Devika Rani in 1969
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters—Sivaji Ganesan
- Test-tube baby—Durga Agarwal, born 1978
- Newspaper—Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760
- First Lady Doctor—Anandibai Joshi
- Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
- Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay
- Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen—Phu Dorjee, 1984
- Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal
- District to achieve 100% literacy rate—Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
- Captain in Tests—C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
- ODI captain—Ajit Wadekar
- Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh
- Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag
- First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh
- Individual Medal in Olympic games—KD Jadhav
- Grandmaster—Viswanathan Anad
- Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy
- First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra
- First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar
- Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge—Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Fellow of the Royal Society—Ardaseer Cursetjee
- Woman External Affairs Minister—Sushma Swaraj
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