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