First Persons 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

President of National Congress—Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
• Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar

• C. S.—Satendra Nath Tagore

Science & Technology:

Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma

Sports and Games:

• 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

• 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)

Woman:

Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950First
Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani
Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’— Indira Gandhi
Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy
Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya
Woman to received Nobel Prize— Mother Teresa
Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee
Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule
Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976

Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956

Awards:

Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Nobel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore
Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. V. Raman
Posthumously Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri
Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)

Miscellaneous:

• Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
• Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
• Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters— Mrinal Sen
• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan
• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal

• Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata
• 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
• 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)
• A person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon

First Persons in India