| Category | Name |
| Indian woman to swim across-English Channel | Miss Arati Saha |
| Woman Minister of Indian Union | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| Woman Chief Minister of State | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| Woman Governor | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| Woman President of Indian National Congress | Dr. Annie Besant |
| Woman Prime Minister | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| Woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Mrs. Shanno Devi |
| Woman to climb mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| 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 woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Banerjee |
| First Indian woman cricketer to score double century | Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against England) |
| 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 Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament | Sania Mirza (2003) |
| First Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship | Anju Bobby George (Aug. 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 Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming | Bula Chaudhury |
| First woman to become Indian Air Force’s First woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay |
| India’s First woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title | Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) |
| The First woman President of the Republic of India | Pratibha Patil |
| Woman IAS | Anna Ranjan George, 1950 |
| Woman to swim across the English Channel | Arati Saha, 1959 |
| First Woman Chief Minister | Sucheta Kriplani |
| Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha | Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009 |
| Woman Awarded with ˜Bharat Ratnas’ | Indira Gandhi |
| Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar | Ashapurna Devi, 1976 |
| Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner | Amrita Pritam, 1956 |
| Woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| Woman Director General of Police | Kanchan C Bhattacharya |
| Woman to received Nobal Prize | Mother Teresa |
| Woman Governor | Sarojini Naidu |
| Woman Air Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| Woman Teacher | Savitribai Phule |
| Woman Doctorate of Science | Asima Chatterjee (1944) |
| Woman IPS | Kiran Bedi |
| Woman Supreme Court judge | Kumari Fathima Beevi |
| 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 |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Devika Rani in 1969 |
| First Lady Doctor | Anandibai Joshi |
| Woman Grandmaster | Koneru Humpy |
| First woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| First woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| First woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| First woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| First woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| First woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| 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 Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| First woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| First woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| First woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| 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 |
| First woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| First woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| First woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| First woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
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