First Men in India - Complete List
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Lists of First Men in India
| S.No | Field | Name of the Person | Year | Birth Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Governor of Bengal | Lord Robert Clive | 1758 | England |
| 2 | First Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings | 1773 | England |
| 3 | First Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck | 1828 | England |
| 4 | First President of Indian Republic | Dr Rajendra Prasad | 1950 | Bihar |
| 5 | First Field Marshal | Gen SFJ Manekshaw | 1971 | Punjab |
| 6 | First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award | G Shankar Kurup | 1965 | Cochin, Kerala |
| 7 | First Indian to swim across Indian Channel | Mihir Sen | 1958 | Bengal, British India |
| 8 | First Indian Nobel laureate | Rabindranath Tagore | 1913 | Kolkata, Bengal |
| 9 | First Pilgrim to visit India | Megasthenes | 302 BC | Syria |
| 10 | First Chinese Pilgrim to visit India | Fa-Hien | 399 | China |
| 11 | First Indian Pilot | JRD Tata | 1929 | Paris, France |
| 12 | First man to climb Mt Everest twice | Nawang Gombu | 1965 | Nepal |
| 13 | First Indian Governor General of Independent India | C Rajgopalachari | 1948 | Thorapalli, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 14 | First Governor General of India (After Independence) | Lord Louis Mountbatten | 1947 | England |
| 15 | First Commander in Chief of Free India | Gen KM Cariappa | 1949 | Kodagu, British India (Now Karnataka) |
| 16 | First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr Nagendra Singh | 1985 | Rajasthan |
| 17 | First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna Award | C Rajgopalachari | 1954 | Thorapalli, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| Dr S Radhakrishanan | Tiruthani, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) | |||
| C. V. Raman | Trichy, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) | |||
| 18 | First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr Zakir Hussain | 1967 | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| 19 | First Indian to win Palk Strait Ocean Swimming Contest | Baidyanath Nath | ||
| 20 | First President of Indian national Congress | Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1885 | Calcutta, British India (Now Kolkata) |
| 21 | First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize | CV Raman (Physics) | 1930 | Trichy, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 22 | India’s First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen | 1950 | Bengal |
| 23 | First Scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science | Dr Hargovind Khurana | 1968 | Raipur, Punjab |
| 24 | First Scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 2009 | Cuddalore, Tamilnadu |
| 25 | First Indian-born to get Nobel Prize in Peace | Kailash Sathyarthi | 2014 | Madhya Pradesh |
| 26 | First Sports Person to get Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar | 2014 | Maharashtra |
| 27 | First Chief Minister to die in Office | CN Annadurai, | 1969 | Tamilnadu |
| 28 | First Indian Sound Film Director | Alam Ara, directed by Ardeshir Irani | 1931 | Pune, Maharashtra |
| 29 | First Indigenously made colour film director | Kisan Kanya, directed by Moti B | 1937 | Sind, Pakistan |
| 30 | First Chief Justice of India | Justice Hiralal J kania | 1950 | Surat, Gujarat |
| 31 | First Indian to win Stalin Award | Saiffudin Kichlu | 1952 | Amritsar, Punjab |
| 32 | First Education Minister of Independent India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | 1947 | Saudi Arabia |
| 33 | First Prime Minister of Independent India | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | 1947 | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh |
| 34 | First Home Minister of Independent India | Sardar Vallahbhai Patel | 1947 | |
| 35 | First Vice President of Independent India | Dr S Radhakrishnan | 1952 | Tiruthani, Madras Presidency (Now Tamilnadu) |
| 36 | First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst | 1947 | England |
| 37 | First Indian Air Chief of India | Air Marshal S Mukherjee | 1954 | Culcutta |
| 38 | First Chief of Army Staff | Gen M Rajendra Singh | 1955 | Katiawar (Now Gujarat) |
| 39 | First Chief of Naval Staff of India | Vice Admiral RD Katari | 1958 | Chingleput, Madras Presidency ( Now Tamilnadu) |
| 40 | First Sikh President of India | Gyani Zail Singh | 1982 | Punjab |
| 41 | First Indian to climb Mt Everest without Oxygen Cylinder | Sherpa Phu Dorjee | 1984 | Nepal |
| 42 | First Speaker of Lok Sabha | GV Mavlankar | 1952 | Vadodara, Gujarat |
| 43 | First Indian Male Recipient of Oscar Award | Satyajitray | 1992 | Calcutta, British India (Now Kolkata) |
| 44 | First Finance Minister of India | RK Shanmukham Chetty | 1947 | Coimbatore, Tamilnadu |
| 45 | First Indian to win Ramon Magasaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave | 1958 | Raigad, British India |
| 46 | First President of India to die in office | Dr Zakir Hussain | 1969 | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| 47 | First British Prime Minister to visit India | Harold Mc Millan | 1958 | England |
| 48 | First Indian Space Tourist | Santosh George | 2008 | Kerala |
| 49 | First Indian to reach South Pole | Col IK Bajaj | 1989 | Punjab |
| 50 | First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower | 1959 | USA |
| 51 | First Indian Cosmonaut | Rakesh Sharma | 1984 | Punjab |
| 52 | First Indian Prime Minister to resign from Office | Morarji Desai | 1979 | Gujarat |
| 53 | First Foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan | 1987 | Pakistan |
| 54 | First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics | Dr Amartya Sen | 1998 | Kolkata, Bengal |
| 55 | First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Sardar Vallabhai Patel | 1947 | Gujarat |
| 56 | First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy | Wilson Jones | 1958 | Maharashtra |
| 57 | First Law Minister of India | BR Ambedkar | 1947 | Madhya Pradesh |
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