Name 

Role

Date of Birth

Tenure

Womesh Chandra Bannerjee

First President of Indian National Congress

29th December 1844

1882 – 1887

Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime Minister of India

14th November 1889

1947 – 1950

Sardar Vallabhai Patel

First Home Minister of India

31st October 1875

1875-1950

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

First President of India

3rd December 1884

1950- 1962

Name

Role

Date of Birth

Tenure (Year)

C.V Raman

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics

7th November 1888

1907-1917

Rakesh Sharma

First Man in Space

13th January 1949

1970- 1982

Aryabhatta

First satellite

476 AD

476- 550 CE

J.R.D. Tata

First Indian Pilot in India

29th July 1904

1953 – 1978.

Name

Role

Date of Birth

Tenure (Year)

Abhinav Bindra

First Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic

28th September 1982

2010 -2014: Member of the ISSF Athletes Committee

2014- 2018: Chairman

Virendra Sehwag

First Indian Cricketer to score a triple century

20th October 1978

1999- 2013

Vishwanathan Anand

First Indian Grandmaster

11th December 1969

1988: First grandmaster from India

Ashish Kumar

First Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games

18th July 1994

2010: First medals in gymnastics at Asian Games, CWG

Name 

Role

Date of Birth 

Tenure ( Year) 

Baldev Singh Chokkar

First Defence Minister of India

17th July 1900

1902- 1961

Major Somnath Sharma

First Param Vir Chakra Winner

31st January 1923

1923- 1947

Sam Manekshaw

First Field Marshal

3rd April 1914

1934- 2008

Subroto Mukherjee

First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force

14th June 1946

1911- 1960

Name

Role

Robert Clive

First Governor of Bengal

Warren Hastings

Last Governor of Bengal 

Warren Hastings

First Governor General of Bengal 

Lord William Bentinck

First Governor General of India 

Lord Canning

Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India 

C. Rajgopalachari 

First Indian Governor General of Independent India

Surendra Nath Banerjee

First Indian to pass ICS

Satyendra Nath Tagore

First Indian I.C.S Officer 

Lord Louis Mountbatten

First Governor General of India (after independence)

Sachidananda Nand Sinha

First temporary president of the Constituent Assembly 

General Kodandera M. Cariappa

First Commander in chief of free India 

Rabindra Nath Tagore

First Indian Nobel Laureate

Dr Nagendra Singh 

First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice

Dr S Radhakrishnan

First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award

Mihir Sen 

First Indian to swim across the English Channel 

G. Sankara Kurup

First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award

Dr Zakir Hussain

First Muslim President of Indian Republic 

Baidyanath Nath

First Indian to win Palk- Strait- Ocean Swimming Contest

G.V Mavlankar

First Speaker of Lok Sabha 

James Hicky

First person to make printing press popular in India 

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

First Education Minister of Independent India

Dr S Radha Krishnan

First Vice President of Independent India

General M Rajendra Singh

First Chief of Army Staff

Vice Admiral R.D Katari

First Chief of Naval Staff of India

I.N.S Chakra

First Atomic Submarine of India

INS Kalvari

First Indian Submarine 

Dr Hargovind Khurana

First Scientist of Indian origin, to get nobel prize in the field of medical science

I.N.S Vikrant

First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship 

Saifuddin Kichlu

First Indian to win Stalin Award

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

First Indian to win Magsaysay Award

Shyana Prasad Mukhrjee

India’s first minister to resign from Union Cabinet

Sukumar Sen

India’s first Election Commissioner 

Badruddin Tayab Ji

First Muslim President of Indian National Congress

H. J. Kania

First Chief Justice of India

Hasrat Mohani

First person to submit the proposal of Indian Independence in a Congress Session

Sherpa Phu Dorji

First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without Oxygen Cylinder

Abdul Gaffar Khan

First foreign recipient Bharat Ratna

Dr Amartya Sen 

First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics 

Indira 

First Test Tube Baby of India

Lt. Ram Charan

First Indian to reach Antarctica

Morarji Desai

First Indian prime minister to resign from office 

Dr Zakir Hussain

First President of India to die in office

Nawang Gombu

First man to climb Mt. Everest twice

Col. JK Bajaj

First Indian to reach the South Pole

Bhanu Athaiya

First Indian recipient of Oscar Award

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First American President to visit India

Harold Mc Mitton

First British Prime Minister to visit India

Ruskin Bond 

First Indian author to get Anderson Award

Wilson Jones

First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy

Santosh George

First Indian Space Tourist