| Category | Name |
| Commander-in-chief of Free India | General Roy Bucher |
| Cosmonaut | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| Field Marshal | S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council | Sri S.P. Sinha |
| Talkie Film | Alam Ara (1931) |
| Test Tube Baby (Documented) | Indira |
| Woman Judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi |
| Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Smt. Leela Seth |
| Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) | Kalpana Chawla |
| India’s First paperless Newspaper | The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) |
| India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Banerjee |
| First woman Air Vice-Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| First Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| 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) |
| First woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India | K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| First woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD | Mrs. Ranjana Kumar |
| First Orissa woman to top I.A.S. | Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) |
| First woman Director General of Police of a State | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) |
| First woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief | MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) |
| First woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army | Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) |
| First woman to become Indian Air Force’s First woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| First woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) | Letika Saran |
| First Indian to Ski to the North Pole | Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) |
| First person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title | Preeti Desai (2006) |
| First man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
| First Indian Commander – in – Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| First Chief of the Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| First Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S. P. Sinha |
| First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| First Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R. D. Katari |
| First judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| First Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
| Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949 |
| Field Marshall | General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw |
| Auditor General of India | V. Narahari Rao |
| Director of CBI | DP Kohli |
| National Security Adviser | Brijesh Mishra |
| Governor of RBI | Sir Osborne Smith |
| Civil Service | Satendra Nath Tagore |
| Woman IAS | Anna Ranjan George, 1950 |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| Indian Chairman in International Court | Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission | Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya |
| Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters | Mrinal Sen |
| Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter | Sivaji Ganeshan |
| Woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| Woman Director General of Police | Kanchan C Bhattacharya |
| Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart | Dr. P. Venugopal |
| Licensed Pilot | J R D Tata |
| Woman Air Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| Woman Teacher | Savitribai Phule |
| Successful heart transplanted person | Devi Ram (1994) |
| President of National Human Rights Commission | Justice Rangnath Mishra |
| Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. | Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977) |
| Indian member in British House of Commons | Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) |
| Indian Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kazi |
| Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain | V. K. Krishna-Menon |
| Woman Chief Justice of High Court | Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991 |
| Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council | Sir. S. P. Sinha |
| Chairman of Finance Commission | K. C. Niogi |
| Woman Doctorate of Science | Asima Chatterjee (1944) |
| Woman IPS | Kiran Bedi |
| Woman Supreme Court judge | Kumari Fathima Beevi |
| Indian member of American Congress | Deleep Singh |
| Editor of Time Magazine | Bobby Ghosh |
| Director of CBI becoming Governor | Ashwani Kumar |
| Person to reach the North Pole | Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar |
| Person to reach the South Pole | Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj |
| Miss World | Reita Faria in 1966 |
| Miss Asia Pacific | Zeenat Aman in 1970 |
| Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen in 1994 |
| Miss Earth | Nicole Faria in 2010 |
| Place to get electricity | Darjeeling in 1897 |
| Sound film | Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani |
| Colour film | Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani |
| Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters | Sivaji Ganesan |
| Test-tube baby | Durga Agarwal, born 1978 |
| Newspaper | Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760 |
| First Lady Doctor | Anandibai Joshi |
| Satellite | Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975 |
| District to achieve 100% literacy rate | Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990 |
| First Marshal of Indian Air Force | Arjan Singh |
| Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | Ardaseer Cursetjee |
| India’s first man in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| First Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| First Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| First Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| First woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| First woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| First woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| First woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| First woman Airline Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| First woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| First woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| First woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| First woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| First woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| First woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| First woman Cheif Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| First woman Judge in Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| First woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| First woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| First woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| First woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| First and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
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