First in India (in male category) after independence −

First (Male) in Independent India

The following table enlists First in India (in male category) after independence −

The First (Male) of Independent India	Name	Tenure/Time	Picture
Who was the First President	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	Jan. 26, 1950 to May 14, 1962
Who was the First Prime Minister	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru	Aug. 15, 1947 to May 27, 1964
Who was the First (& last) Indian Governor General	C. Rajagopalachari	June 21, 1948 to Jan. 26 1950
The First Indian who went in Space	Rakesh Sharma	1984 Mission: Soyuz T-11
Who was the First Commander-in-Chief	Kodandera Madappa Cariappa	Jan. 16, 1949 to Jan. 14, 1953
Who was the First President who died while in office	Zakir Husain	May 13, 1967 to May 3, 1969
Who was the First Prime Minister who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh	July, 28 1979 to January 14, 1980
Who was the First Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Jamshedji Manekshaw	June 8, 1969 to Jan. 15, 1973
Who was the First Indian who crossed the English Channel	Mihir Sen	1958
Who did receive the First Jnanpith Award	G. Sankara Kurup	1965
Who was the First Speaker of Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar	May 15, 1952 to Jan. 13 1956
Who was the First Air Chief Marshal	Subroto Mukerjee	April 1954 to Nov. 1960
Who was the First Education Minister	Abul Kalam Azad	Aug. 15, 1947 to Feb. 2, 1958
Who was the First Home Minister (& First Deputy Prime Minister)	Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel	Aug. 15, 1947 to Dec. 15, 1950
Who was the First Vice-President	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan	Jan. 26 1952 to May 12, 1962
Who was the First Naval Chief	Vice Admiral Ram Dass Katari	April 22, 1958 to June 4, 1962
Who was the First (Indian) President of the International Court of Justice (Hague)	Dr. Nagendra Singh	1985 to 1988
Who did First receive Param Vir Chakra	Major Som Nath Sharma
Who did First receive Ramon Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1958
Who was the First Indian who received Nobel Prize in Medicine	Har Gobind Khorana	1968
The First Indian who received Stalin (now Lenin) Peace Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlew	1952
Who was the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hirala J. Kania	Jan. 26, 1950 to Nov. 6, 1951
The First person (Indian) who received Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen	1998
Who was the First person resigned from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee	April 6, 1950
Who was the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court Acted as the President of India (Acting President)	Justice M. Hidayatullah	July 20, 1969 to Aug. 24, 1969
Who was the First Finance Minister	Shanmukham Chetty	1947 to 1949
Who was the First Prime Minister resigned without completing his tenure	Morarji Desai	March 24, 1977 to July 28, 1979 Resigned in - 1979
Who was the First Defence Minister	Baldev Singh	1947–1952
Who was the First Law Minister	Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar	Aug. 15, 1947 to Sep. 1951
Who was the First Chief Minister died during his tenure	C. N. Annadurai	Feb. 1967 to Feb. 3, 1969 Died in Feb. 3, 1969

First (Female) in Independent India

The following table enlists First in India (in female category) after independence −

The First (Female) of Independent India	Female	Tenure/Time	Picture
The First Woman who became Cabinet Minister (She was Health Minister)	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur	1947 to 1957
Who was the First Woman Governor (of a state)(She served as governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh)	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu	1947 to 1949
Who was the First (& only) Woman Prime Minister	Mrs. Indira Gandhi	Jan. 24, 1966 to March 24, 1977 & Jan. 14, 1980 to Oct. 31, 1984
Who was the First Woman Judge of Supreme Court	Justice M. Fathima Beevi	Oct. 6, 1989 to April 29, 1992
Who was the First Woman Ambassador (First woman who cleared Indian Civil Services Exam and first woman who joined Indian Foreign Service)	Miss C. B. Muthamma	Joined IFS in 1949
Who was the First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	1953
Who was the First Woman Chief Minister of state	Sucheta Kriplani	Oct. 2, 1963 to March 13, 1967
Who was the First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar	June 4, 2009 to May 18, 2014
Who was the First woman crossed the English Channel (She is first Indian female sportsperson who received Padma Shri in 1960)	Arati Saha	1959
Who was the First woman cosmonaut (from India)	Kalpana Chawla	In 1997, first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia
Who was the First Indian woman received Academy Award (for Best Costume Design)	Bhanu Athaiya	1982 (for movie Gandhi)
The first Indian female gymnast who won Medal at Commonwealth Games	Dipa Karmakar	2014
Who did receive the First title of Miss World	Reita Faria	1966
Who did receive the First title of Miss Universe	Sushmita Sen	1994
Who was the First Woman President	Pratibha Devisingh Patil	July 25, 2007 to July 25, 2012
Who was the First (female) train driver	Surekha Yadav	1988
Who was the First woman commercial Pilot	Durba Banerjee	1956
The first Indian woman who received the ‘Légion d'honneur’	Dr. Asha Pande	2010
The youngest woman who achieved the title of grandmaster (Chess)	Humpy Koneru	2001
Who is the first 100% visually challenged Indian Foreign Service Officer	NL Beno Zephine	2015
The First woman who received Jnanpith Award	Ashapoorna Devi	1976
The First woman who received the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award	Indira Gandhi	1971
The first woman (in the world) who climbed Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav	First in – 1992 & Second time in 1993

First in India Before Independence

The following table enlists First in India before independence −

The First in India (Before Independence)	Name	Tenure/Time	Picture
Who was the First President of Indian National Congress	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	1885
The First person who cleared the Indian Civil Service Exam (ICS)	Satyendranath Tagore	1863
The First person who received a Nobel Prize (in literature)	Rabindra Nath Tagore	1913
The First person who received a Nobel Prize (in Physics)	C. V. Raman	1930
The First Indian who became a pilot (of solo air flight)	Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD Tata)	1929
The First Indian leader who visited England	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1832
The first Indian who was appointed as member of the British House of Lords	Satyendra Prasanno Sinha	1919
Who were the first (two) female graduates	Kadambini Ganguly	Passed in 1882 & degree received in 1883
Who were the first (two) female graduates	Chandramukhi Basu	Passed in 1882 & degree received in 1883
Who was the First woman honors graduate	Kamini Roy	1886
Who the first woman to read law at Oxford University (She was the first female advocate)	Cornelia Sorabji	1889