First in India
| 1. | British Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
| 2. | Governor General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| 3. | Commander-in-chief of Free India | General Roy Bucher |
| 4. | Cosmonaut | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| 5. | Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India | Babar |
| 6. | Field Marshal | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| 7. | Indian Governor General of Indian Union | C. Rajagopalachari |
| 8. | Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 9. | Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council | Sri S.P. Sinha |
| 10. | Indian to swim across English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| 11. | Indian woman to swim across-English Channel | Miss Arati Saha |
| 12. | Man to climb Mount Everest | Tenzing Norgay |
| 13. | Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen | Phu Dorjee |
| 14. | Man to climb Mount Everest twice | Nwang Gombu |
| 15. | Nobel Prize winner | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 16. | President of Indian National Congress | W. C. Banerjee |
| 17. | President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 18. | Talkie Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| 19. | Test Tube Baby (Documented) | Indira |
| 20. | Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| 21. | Woman Minister of Indian Union | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 22. | Woman Chief Minister of State | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| 23. | Woman Governor | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| 24. | Woman President of Indian National Congress | Dr. Annie Besant |
| 25. | Woman Prime Minister | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| 26. | Woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| 27. | Prime Minister of India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 28. | Muslim President of Indian Union | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 29. | Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar |
| 30. | Woman to climb mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| 31. | Woman Judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| 32. | Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Smt. Leela Seth |
| 33. | Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) | Kalpana Chawla |
| 34. | The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics | Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) |
| 35. | The First Indian World Chess Champion | Vishwanathan Anand |
| 36. | India's first paperless Newspaper | The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
| 37. | India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Banerjee |
| 38. | The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha | G. M. C. Balyogi |
| 39. | The first Vice-President of India to die in harness | Krishna Kant |
| 40. | The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century | Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) |
| 41. | The first woman Air Vice-Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| 42. | The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| 43. | The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident | Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) |
| 44. | The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| 45. | The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament | Sania Mirza (2003) |
| 46. | The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship | Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
| 47. | The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| 48. | The highest individual test scorer of India | Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the first test in Multan against Pakistan) |
| 49. | The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times | Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) |
| 50. | The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
| 51. | The first Sikh Prime Minister of India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 52. | The first woman Director General of Police of a State | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) |
| 53. | The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief | MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| 54. | The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
| 55. | The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming | Bula Chaudhury |
| 56. | The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| 57. | The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years | Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) |
| 58. | India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title | Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
| 59. | The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon | Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) |
| 60. | The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. | Budhia (May 2006) |
| 61. | The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) | Letika Saran |
| 62. | The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole | Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
| 63. | The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship | Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) |
| 64. | The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title | Preeti Desai (2006) |
| 65. | The first woman President of the Republic of India | Pratibha Patil |
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