List of First in India As of 2018 | General Knowledge
First In India |
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| First dam | Kallanai Dam |
| First Stepwell still existing | Mata Bhavani’s Stepwell, Gujarat |
| Mr. Universe | Monotosh Roy in 1952 |
| 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 |
| Bharat Ratna | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and C. V. Raman in 1954 |
| Padma Vibhushan | Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon in 1954. |
| Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Devika Rani in 1969. |
| Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian | D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit |
| Magsaysay Award | Vinoba Bhave in 1958 |
| Oscar for Lifetime Achievement | Satyajit Ray |
| First President of the Indian National Congress | Womesh Chandra Bannerjee in 1885 |
| First President of the Indian National Congress of independent India | Acharya Kripalani |
| President | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Vice-President | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| President (Female) | Pratibha Patil |
| Prime Minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Prime Minister (Female) | Indira Gandhi |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Leader of Opposition | A. K. Gopalan |
| Law Minister of India | B. R. Ambedkar |
| Prime Minister to be voted out of office | Indira Gandhi |
| Non-Congress government | Janata Party |
| The first Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| Governor-General of India | Warren Hastings |
| Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| Chief Justice of India | H. J. Kania |
| First Sikh Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| First Muslim President | Zakir Hussain |
| First Sikh President | Giani Zail Singh |
| Indian ICS Officer | Satyendranath Tagore |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar |
| Satellite | Aryabhata |
| Man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
| Woman in space | Kalpana Chawla |
| Test-tube baby | Durga Agarwal |
| Person to reach the South Pole | Colonel Jatinder Kumar Bajaj |
| Man to scale Mount Everest | H.P.S. Ahluwalia |
| Woman to scale Mount Everest | Bachendri Pal |
| Nobel Prize for Literature | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Nobel Prize for Physics | Sir C. V. Raman |
| Nobel Prize for Peace | Mother Teresa |
| Nobel Prize for Economics | Amartya Sen |
| First cricket stadium | Eden Gardens in Kolkata |
| Tests captain Cricket | C. K. Nayudu |
| ODI captain Cricket | Ajit Wadekar |
| Chess Grandmaster: Male | Viswanathan Anand |
| Chess Women Grandmaster: Female | Bhagyashree Thipsay |