| 1. |
British Governor General of Bengal |
Warren Hastings |
| 2. |
Governor General of Independent India |
Lord Mountbatten |
| 3. |
Commander-in-chief of Free India |
General Roy Bucher |
| 4. |
Cosmonaut |
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| 5. |
India’s first Lady IPS – The proud Indian woman |
Kiran Bedi |
| 5. |
Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India |
Babar |
| 7. |
Field Marshal |
S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| 8. |
Indian Governor General of Indian Union |
C. Rajagopalachari |
| 9. |
Indian I.C.S. Officer |
Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 10. |
Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council |
Sri S.P. Sinha |
| 11. |
Indian to swim across English Channel |
Mihir Sen |
| 12. |
Indian woman to swim across-English Channel |
Miss Arati Saha |
| 13. |
Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen |
Phu Dorjee |
| 14. |
Man to climb Mount Everest twice |
Nwang Gombu |
| 15. |
Nobel Prize winner |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 16. |
President of Indian National Congress |
W. C. Banerjee |
| 17. |
President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 18. |
Talkie Film |
Alam Ara (1931) |
| 19. |
Test Tube Baby (Documented) |
Indira |
| 20. |
Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning |
| 21. |
Woman Minister of Indian Union |
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 22. |
Woman Chief Minister of State |
Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| 23. |
Woman Governor |
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| 24. |
Woman President of Indian National Congress |
Dr. Annie Besant |
| 25. |
Woman Prime Minister |
Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| 26. |
Woman Speaker of a State Assembly |
Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| 27. |
Prime Minister of India |
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 28. |
Muslim President of Indian Union |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 29. |
Speaker of Lok Sabha |
G. V. Mavlankar |
| 30. |
Woman to climb mount Everest |
Bachhendri Pal |
| 31. |
Woman Judge in Supreme Court |
Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| 32. |
Woman Chief Justice of a High Court |
Smt. Leela Seth |
| 33. |
Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) |
Kalpana Chawla |
| 34. |
The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics |
Karnam Malleshwari
(Sydney, in 2000) |
| 35. |
The First Indian World Chess Champion |
Vishwanathan Anand |
| 36. |
India's first paperless Newspaper |
The News Today
(Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
| 37. |
India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer |
Sonali Banerjee |
| 38. |
The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
G. M. C. Balyogi |
| 39. |
The first Vice-President of India to die in harness |
Krishna Kant |
| 40. |
The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century |
Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing
against England) |
| 41. |
The first woman Air Vice-Marshal |
P. Bandopadhyaya |
| 42. |
The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor |
Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| 43. |
The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident |
Dr. Kalpana Chawla
(Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) |
| 44. |
The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India |
K. J. Udeshi
(appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| 45. |
The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament |
Sania Mirza (2003) |
| 46. |
The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship |
Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) |
| 47. |
The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD |
Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| 48. |
The highest individual test scorer of India |
Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the
first test in Multan against Pakistan) |
| 49. |
The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times |
Rahul Drgvid (playing test against
Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) |
| 50. |
The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. |
Smt. Roopa Misra
(Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
| 51. |
The first Sikh Prime Minister of India |
Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 52. |
The first woman Director General of Police of a State |
Kanchan C. Bhattacharya
(DGP Uttaranchal) |
| 53. |
The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief |
MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| 54. |
The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army |
Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
| 55. |
The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming |
Bula Chaudhury |
| 56. |
The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal |
Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| 57. |
The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years |
Dharmendra Yadav
(Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) |
| 58. |
India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title |
Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
| 59. |
The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest
of heights yet in a hot balloon |
Vijaypath Singhania
(Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) |
| 60. |
The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. |
Budhia (May 2006) |
| 61. |
The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) |
Letika Saran |
| 62. |
The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole |
Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
| 63. |
The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship |
Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) |
| 64. |
The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title |
Preeti Desai (2006) |
| 65. |
The first woman President of the Republic of India |
Pratibha Patil |
| 66. |
Man to climb Mount Everest |
Tenzing Norgay |
