First in India (Men)

1. The first President of Indian Republic - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2. The first Prime Minister of free India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore
4. The first President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee
5. The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress - Badruddin Tayyabji
6. The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain
7. The first British Governor General of India - Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835)
8. The first British Governor General of Bengal - Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885)
9. The first British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning
10. The first Governor General of free India - Lord Mountbatten
11. The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India - C. Rajgopalachari
12. The first man who introduced printing press in India - James Hicky
13. The first Indian to join the I.C.S - Satyendra Nath Tagore
14. The first Indian man in Space - Rakesh Sharma
15. The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term- Morarji Desai
16. The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India General - Cariappa
17. The first Chief of Army Staff Gen. - Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
18. The first Indian Member of the Viceroys executive council - S.P.Sinha
19. The first President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakhir Hussain
20. The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh
21. The first Field Marshal of India - S.H.F. Manekshaw
22. The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V.Raman
23. The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award - C Rajagopalachari
24. The first Bharat Ratna Awardee to become the president of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan
25. The first scientist to receive Bharat ratna - C. V. Raman
26. The first person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously - Lal Bahadur Shashtri
27. The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen
28. The first Person to receive Jnanpith award - Sri Shankar Kurup
29. The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha - Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
30. The first Vice-President of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan
31. The first Education Minister - Abdul Kalam Azad
32. The first Home minister of India - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
33. The first Indian Air Chief Marshal - S. Mukherjee
34. The first Indian Naval Chief Vice - Admiral R.D. Katari
35. The first Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr. Nagendra Singh
36. The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Anga Dorjee
37. The first person to get Param Vir Chakra - Major Somnath Sharma
38. The first Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
39. The first person to receive Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
40. The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine - Hargovind Khurana
41. The first Chinese traveller to visit India - Fahein
42. The first person to receive Stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu
43. The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
44. The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics - Amartya Sen
45. The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice - Hirala J. Kania
46. The first Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)
47. The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut - Mohd. Azharuddin
48. The first batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match - Sachin Tendulkar
49. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice - Nawang Gombu
50. The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan