First in India - Men

Field	Person
First Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen
First to Climb Mount Everest	Tenzing Norgay
First to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen	Phy Dorjee
First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now IAS)	Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian to get Nobel Prize	Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut)	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
First British Governor General	Warren Hastings
First Governor General of Free India	Lord Mountbatten
First and the last Governor General of free India	C. Rajagopalachari
First President of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Sikh President of India	Giani Zail Singh
First Prime Minister	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Speaker of Lok Sabha	G.V. Mavlankar
First Chief Justice of India	Justice H.L. Kania
First President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Bannerjee
First Indian to become member of Viceroy's Executive Council	Lord S.P. Sinha
First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty	Babar
First Field Marshal	S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	Gen. K.M. Cariappa
First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian)	Sinhji
First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian)	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India)	Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian in British Parliament	Dada Bhai Nauroji
First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross (highest award before independence)	Khudada Khan
First Indian to circumnavigate the globe	Lt. Col K.S. Rao
First Indian to reach the South Pole	Col J.K. Bajaj (1989)
First Indian to make a solo air flight	JRD Tata
First Indian to visit England	Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)
First Indian Member of House of Lords (British)	Lord S.P. Sinha
First Bar-at-Law	J.M. Tagore
First Chairman of Rajya Sabha	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 - 62)
First Indian Test Cricketer	K.S. Ranjitsingh
First Air Marshall	Arjan Singh
First Judge to face impeachment in the Lock Sabha	Justice V.Ramaswami (1993)
Fastest Shorthand writer	Dr. G.D. Bhist (250 wpm)