First in India (Male) General Knowledge points and Questions for all Competitive exams in India
| S.no | First person |
|---|---|
| 1 | Major Somnath Sharma was the first recipient of Param Vir Chakra, India ‘ s highest military decoration. |
| 2 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian to won Raman-Magsaysay awardee. |
| 3 | Dwight David Eisenhower was the first American President to visit India. |
| 4 | First Asian Games organized in Delhi. |
| 5 | Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (S.H.F.J. Manekshaw) was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. |
| 6 | Prithvi is the first Indian missile. |
| 7 | Dadabhai Naoroji campaigned for Indian causes and was the first Indian Member of Parliament elected to the UK House of Commons. |
| 8 | Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962. |
| 9 | Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. |
| 10 | Sir Osborne Arkell Smith was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, a post he held from 1 April 1935 to 30 June 1937. |
| 11 | Harold Mc Millon was the first British Prime Minister to visit India. |
| 12 | Dr. Zakir Hussain was the first President of India to die in office. |
| 13 | Morarji Desai was the first India Prime Minister to resign from office. |
| 14 | Dr P Venugopal, head of the cardiothoracic centre in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), leads a team of doctors in carrying out the first successful heart transplant in the country. |
| 15 | Sir R. K. Shanmukham Chetty was an Indian lawyer, economist and politician who served as independent India ‘ s first finance minister from 1947 to 1949. |
| 16 | Santosh George was the first Indian Space Tourist. |
| 17 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of Indian National Congress. |
| 18 | Fa-hien was the first Chinese pilgrim to visit India. |
| 19 | Mihir Sen was a long distance swimmer, best known for being the first Indian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958. |
| 20 | Lt.Ram Charan was the first Indian to reach Antarctica. |
| 21 | Col.I.K.Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the South Pole. |
| 22 | Tarapur is the first nuclear centre in India. |
| 23 | Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University is the first open university in India. |
| 24 | Zakir Husain was the first Muslim President of Indian Republic. |
| 25 | Virender Sehwag is the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in test cricket. |
| 26 | Nawang Gombu was the first Man to climb Mt.Everest twice. |
| 27 | Agni was the first medium range missile. |
| 28 | Bhanu Athaiya was the first Indian recipient of Oscar Award. |
| 29 | Rabindra Nath Tagore was first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| 30 | Morarji Desai was the first Non-Congress Prime-Minister of India. |
| 31 | Cottari Kanakaiya(CK) Nayudu, was the first captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches. |
| 32 | J.R.D.Tata was the first Indian Pilot. |
| 33 | Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel India ‘ s first home minister and also the first deputy prime minister. |
| 34 | Rakesh Sharma the first Indian to go into space. |
| 35 | K.D. Jadhav, who had created history by winning a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki Capital of Finland. |
| 36 | Sachin Tendulkar became the first player to score 10,000 runs in ODIs |
| 37 | Devi Ram was the first heart transplant patient of India. |
| 38 | Lord Lewis Mountbatten was the first Governor-General of independent India (1947–48). |
| 39 | Sherpa Phu Dorji was the first Indian to summit Mt. Everest without oxygen. |
| 40 | Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan is a racing driver who was the first Formula One driver from India. |
| 41 | Ruskin Bond was the first Indian author to get Anderson Award. |
| 42 | James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in Asia. |
| 43 | Wilson Jones was the first Indian to win World Billiards Trophy. |
| 44 | Dr. Amartya Sen is the first Indian recipient of Nobal prize in Economics. |
| 45 | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was the first Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna. |
| 46 | Viswanathan Anand became India ‘ s first grandmaster in 1988. |
| 47 | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari was the First Indian Governor General of the country. |
| 48 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first Vice President of India. |
| 49 | Sukumar Sen was an Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India, serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958. |
| 50 | Lal Bahadur Shastri became the first individual to be honoured Bharat Ratna Awardee posthumously. |
| 51 | Robert clive was the first one to get assigned to the post of Governor of Bengal. |
| 52 | Warren Hastings was the first Governor General of Bengal. |
| 53 | Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh was the first Indian Chairman in International Court. |
| 54 | Sukumar Sen was an Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India. |
| 55 | Dharamnath Prasad Kohli (D.P Kohli) was the founder Director of the CBI, India ‘ s Central Investigation Agency. He held office from 1 April 1963 to 31 May 1968. |
| 56 | P.V.Narasimha Rao was the India first lok Sabha member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes . |
| 57 | Kodandera Madappa Cariappa was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India. |
| 58 | G. Sankara Kurup better was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, India ‘ s highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam Odakkuzhal. |
| 59 | Hawkins was the first to visit India by British East India Company. |
| 60 | Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was the first individual athlete from India to win a medal at the Olympics. |
| 61 | C. V. Raman was first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 62 | V. Narahari Rao was served as the first Comptroller and Auditor General of India from 1948 to 1954. |
| 63 | Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim was the first Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission. |
| 64 | Justice Rangnath Mishra was the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. |
| 65 | Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. |
| 66 | Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
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