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First Persons in India

Published on Monday, January 21, 2019
Dear Readers,
As you all know that, in previous IBPS Clerk exams, questions were asked on the First Persons in India. So here we are posting a short note on First Persons in India which is very much important for upcoming bank exams.

First Persons in India

  1. President - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
  2. Prime-Minister - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
  3. Governor-General of Independent India - Lord Lewis Mountbatten
  4. Indian Governor-General of Independent India - Chakravarti  Rajgopalachari
  5. Speaker of Loksabha - Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
  6. Vice-President - Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
  7. Home Minister - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
  8. Finance Minister of India - R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
  9. Governor of RBI - Sir Osborne Smith
  10. First Woman Chief Minister - Sucheta Kriplani
  11. Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
  12. Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
  13. Woman Governor - Sarojini Naidu
  14. Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha - Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
  15. President of National Congress - Womesh Chandra Banerjee
  16. First President of Indian Science Congress - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
  17. Foreigner Awardees’ Of Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
  18. Nobel Prize Winner - Rabindra Nath Tagore
  19. First Lady Doctor - Anandibai Joshi
  20. Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ - Indira Gandhi
  21. Indian Who Won the Grammy Award - Pt. Ravi Shankar
  22. Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner - Amrita Pritam, 1956
  23. Woman To Receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
  24. Won the Booker Prize - Arundhati Roy for her novel "The God of Small Things" (1997).
  25. Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
  26. Literature Who Was Awarded Murti Devi Purskar - C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
  27. Writer Who Was Awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ - Ramvilas Sharma
  28. Raman-Magsaysay Awardee - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
  29. Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Devika Rani (1969)
  30. Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave, 1958
  31. Miss World - Reita Faria in 1966
  32. Miss Asia Pacific - Zeenat Aman in 1970
  33. Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen in 1994
  34. Miss Earth - Nicole Faria in 2010
  35. Sound Film - Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
  36. Colour Film - Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
  37. First Viceroy of India : Lord Canning
  38. The first and the last Governor-general of Independent India : C Rajagopalachari
  39. First Education minister of India : Abul Kalam Azad
  40. First Speaker of the Lok Sabha : Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
  41. First Indian Justice (President) at the International Court of Justice : Nagendra Singh
  42. First Commander-in Chief of Independent India : Generaal Kariappa
  43. First Field marshal of India :general Manekshaw
  44. First Muslim President of Indian National Congress : Badruddin Tyabji
  45. First Indian to be successful in ICS (Indian Civil Service) : Satyendranath Tagore
  46. First Indian who became the member of the British Parliament : Dadabhai Naoroji
  47. First Indian Pilot : J R D Tata
  48. First Indian Scientist who received Nobel Prize : C V Raman
  49. First Indian who was honoured with Bharat Ratna : Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  50. First Person who received Gyanpeeth Award : G Shankara Kurup
  51. First Indian who went to the space : Rakesh Sharma
  52. First Indian who crossed English Channel : Mihir Sen
  53. First Muslim President of India – Dr. Zakir Hussain
  54. First British Governor General of India – Lord William Bentinck
  55. First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing full term – Morarji Desai
  56. First Chief of the Army Staff - Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
  57. First Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council – S.P. Sinha
  58. First Prime Minister of India who did not face Parliament – Charan Singh
  59. First Indian Air Chief Marshal – S. Mukherjee
  60. First Indian Naval Chief – Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
  61. First Person to receive Paramveer Chakra – Major Somnath Sharma
  62. First Person to reach Mount Everest without oxygen – Phu Dorjee
  63. First Person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine – Hargovind Khurana
  64. First Chinese traveller to visit India – Fahein
  65. First Person to receive Stalin Prize – Saifuddin Kitchlu
  66. First Person to resign from the central cabinet – Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
  67. First Person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics – Amartya Sen
  68. First woman Ambassador - Miss C.B. Muthumma
  69. First woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
  70. First woman chief justice of a high Court - Mrs. Leela Seth
  71. First woman Pilot in Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Deol
  72. First woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian Bethew
  73. First woman Director General of Police (DGP) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya 
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