| Category | First Person / Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
| First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1950 |
| First Prime Minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1947 |
| First Woman Prime Minister of India | Indira Gandhi | 1966 |
| First Indian man in space | Rakesh Sharma | 1984 |
| First Indian-born woman in space | Kalpana Chawla | 1997 |
| First men to reach the summit of Mount Everest | Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay | 1953 |
| First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachendri Pal | 1984 |
| First woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav | 1992, 1993 |
| First Indian to receive a Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore | 1913 |
| First Indian-born woman to receive a Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa | 1979 |
| First Indian woman to hold a cabinet minister position | Vijayalakshmi Pandit | 1937 |
| First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian state | Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh) | 1963 |
| First Woman Governor of an Indian state | Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh) | 1947 |
| First Woman Judge of the Supreme Court of India | M. Fathima Beevi | 1989 |
| First Woman IAS Officer | Anna Rajam Malhotra | 1951 |
| First Woman IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi | 1972 |
| First Indian Woman Commercial Pilot | Durba Banerjee | 1956 |
| First Indian woman to win Miss World | Reita Faria | 1966 |
| First Indian woman to win Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen | 1994 |
| First Indian man to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen | 1958 |
| First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel | Arati Saha | 1959 |
| First Indian to win an Oscar | Bhanu Athaiya | 1983 |
| First Indian to pilot a commercial flight | J. R. D. Tata | 1932 |
| First Mughal Emperor in India | Babur | 1526 |
| First Muslim woman ruler of the Delhi Sultanate | Razia Sultan | 1236 |
| First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning | 1858 |
| First Governor-General of Bengal | Warren Hastings | 1773 |
| First Governor-General of independent India | Lord Mountbatten | 1947 |
| First Indian Governor-General of independent India | C. Rajagopalachari | 1948 |
| First President of the Indian National Congress | W. C. Bonnerjee | 1885 |
| First Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal | Abhinav Bindra | 2008 |
| First Indian feature film | Raja Harishchandra | 1913 |
| First Indian talkie film | Alam Ara | 1931 |
| First newspaper in India | Hicky’s Bengal Gazette | 1780 |
| First Indian satellite | Aryabhata | 1975 |
First in India
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