First in India Female Personalities

● Prime-Minister—Indira Gandhi 
● Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel through Swimming—Arti Shah 
● Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.) 
● I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi ● President of National Congress—Anne Besant 
● Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—Rose-William Baithu 
● Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Teresa (for peace) 
● Awardee of Miss World—Reeta Farhia 
● Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen 
● Mayer—Tara Charian (Madras-1957) 
● Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 
● Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani 
● Parliamentrian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938) 
● Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahaib Fatima Bibi 
● Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh) 
● Session Judge of the Counting—Anna Chandi (Kerala) 
● Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt. Everest—Bacchendri Pal 
● Awardee of Norman Barlog Prize—Dr. Amrita Patil 
● Literature who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award—Amrita Pritam (1956) 
● Honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’—Indira Gandhi 
● Awardee of Lenin peace award—Aruna Asaf Ali 
● Awardee of Jananpith Purshkar—Asha Purna Devi (1976) 
● Woman who reached ‘Antarctica’—Mahel Musa (1977) 
● Woman who reached the North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993) 
● Woman who travelled All round the world—Ujjawala Patil (1988) by Boat 
● Chief Engineer—P. K. Tresia Naguli 
● Pilot—Flying Officer Sushma Mukhopaddhyaya 
● Air Lines Pilot—Capt. Durga Banerjee 
● Commander of Boeing 737 Plane—Capt. Saudamini Deshmukh 
● Paratrooper of Indian Air Force—Geeta Ghosh 
● I. A. S.—Auna George Malhotra 
● First television news broadcaster—Pratima Puri 
● Participated in mustic programme of U.N.O.—M. S. Subbuluxmi (1966) 
● Woman participated in Olympic games—Meri Lila Row (1952) 
● Woman who won the medal in Olympic games—Malleshwari (weight lifting—Sydney) 
● Woman who won the Gold Medal in Asian games—Kamaljeet Sidhu (1970, 400 metre) 
● Woman who won the medal in Commonwealth games—Anil Ghiya and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman Doubles Badminton, 1978) ● Medal winner in International Athletic Championship—Anju B. George (2003 Paris) 
● Grandmaster winner in Chess—Bhagiya Sri Thispey (1988) 
● One hundred wicket taker in International Cricket—Indulgi (1986) 
● Awardee of Arjun Purskar—N. Lamsden (Hockey, 1961) 
● Woman who made hat-trick in football—Youlandade-Suza (1978) 
● Awardee of Ashok Chakra—Neerja Bhanot (Posthumously) 
● Awardee of Sena Medal—Vimla Devi (1988) 
● Degree of graduation—Kadambni Ganguly (Bose) and Chandramukhi Bose (Kolkata University, 1883) 
● Awardee of B. E. degree—Ella-Majumdar (1951) 
● M.B.B.S. Degree awardee—Vidhumuti Bose and Virginia Mitter (Kolkata Medical College) 
● First Surgeon—Dr. Prema Mukherjee 
● Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank—K. J. Udesi (2003) 
● Chairman of NABARD—Ranjana Kumar 
● D. I. G. (Police)—Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya 
● Lieutenant General—Punita Arora 
● Chairman of Indian Air lines—Shushma Chawla 
● Barrister—Cornonia Sorabji (Allahabad High Court-1923) 
● Advocate—Regina Guha 
● Ambassador—Vijayalaxmi Pandit (U.S.S.R.-1947) 
● Woman who crossed over Gibralter Strait by Swimming—Arati Pradhan 
● World Record in Powerlifting—Sumita Laha (1989) 
● Represented the nation in all three games (Cricket, Hockey and Basketball)—Shrin Khushro Kiyasa 
● First Commercial test Pilot of the world—Capt. Surun Darsi and Capt. Rose Lopar 
● Pilot of Indian Air Force—Harita Daoel 
● Twice scaled the Mt. Everest—Santosh Yadav 
● Ramon Magsaysay Prize awardee—Kiran Bedi 
● Heroin awarded Dada Sahaib Phalke Prize—Devika Rani Rorik 
● Youngest woman who scaled the Mt. Everest twice—Decky Dolma 
● Scientist who was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award—Ashima Chatterjee 
● Foreign Secretary—Chokila Ayyar 
● First Chief Secretary of the Country—Nirmla Buch 
● First Space traveller—Kalpana Chawla 
● Joint Director of C.B.I.—Archana Sunder Lingam 
● Winner of Murti Devi Prize—Pratibha Rai 
● Woman Contested the Presidential election—Capt. Laxmi Sahgal 
● Air Vice-Marshal and Air-Marshal in Indian Air Force—P. Bondyopaddhyay 
● Non-military Police Advisor in U.N.O.—Kiran Bedi 
● Revenue Secretary—Vinita Rai 
● Referee in Boxing—Rajia Sabnam 
● First woman of Indian origin who stayed for the longest time in space—Sunita William