FIRST IN INDIA

1) President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad

2) Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

3) Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten

4) Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti  Rajgopalachari

5) Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India —General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949

6) Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

7) Speaker of Loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).

8) Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli RadhakrishnanSardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

9) Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

10) Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

11) Auditor General of India—V. Narahari Rao

12) Director of CBI— DP Kohli

13) National Security Adviser— Brijesh Mishra

14) Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne Smith

15) Non-Congress Prime-Minister— Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.

16) British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings

17) Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma

18) Civil Servant—Satendra Nath Tagore

19) Woman IAS Officer—Anna Ranjan George, 1950

20) Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen

21) Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959

22) Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave

23) Nobel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore

24) Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930

25) President of National Congress—Wyomesh Chand Banerjee

26) Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar

27) First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

28) Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

29) Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen

30) Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

31) Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

32) Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim

33) Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya

34) Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman

35) Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’— Indira Gandhi

36) Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters— Mrinal Sen

37) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan

38) Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri

39) Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)

40) Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976

41) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956

42) Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy

43) Woman Director General of Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya

44) Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal

45) Woman to receive Nobel Prize— Mother Teresa

46) Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu

47) Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata

48) Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee

49) Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule

50) Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994)

51) President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra

52) Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)

53) Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans

54) Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar

55) Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)Dada Bhai Naoroji

56) Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)

56) First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee

57) Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita

58) Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma

59) Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi

60) Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu

61) Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis Dutt, 1958

62) Indian players played Davis Cup—M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)

63) Tennis Grandslam title winner—Mahesh Bhupati

64) Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)

65) Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr. Meghnad Saha

66) Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)

67) Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)

68) Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon

69) Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)

70) First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose

71) Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

72) Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991

73) An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram

74) Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council—Sir. S. P. SinhaMorarji Desai

75) Leanin Peace Prize— Saifuddin Kitchlew

76) Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C. Niogi

77) Woman Doctorate of Science—Asima Chatterjee (1944)

78) Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi

79) Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari Fathima Beevi

80) Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh

81) Editor of Time Magazine—Bobby Ghosh

82) Director of CBI becoming Governor—Ashwani Kumar

83) Person to reach the North Pole—Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar

84) Person to reach the South Pole—Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

85) Nishan-e-Pakistan Award—Morarji Desai, 1990

86) Magsaysay Award—Vinoba Bhave, 1958 Sushmita Sen

87) Miss World—Reita Faria in 1966

88) Miss Asia Pacific—Zeenat Aman in 1970

89) Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen in 1994

90) Miss Earth—Nicole Faria in 2010

91) Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in 1897

92) Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani

93) Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani

94) Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.

95) Dadasaheb Phalke Award—Devika Rani in 1969

96) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters—Sivaji Ganesan

97) Test-tube baby—Durga Agarwal, born 1978

98) Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760Tenzing Norgay

99) First Lady Doctor—Anandibai Joshi

100) Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975

101) Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay

102) Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen—Phu Dorjee, 1984

103) Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri Pal

104) District to achieve 100% literacy rate—Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990

105) Captain in Tests—C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

106) ODI captain—Ajit Wadekar

107) Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh

108) Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag

109) First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh

110) Individual Medal in Olympic games—KD Jadhav

111) Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad

112) Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy

113) First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra

114) First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar

115) Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge—Srinivasa Ramanujan

116) Fellow of the Royal Society—Ardaseer Cursetjee

117) Post Office- Kolkata(1727)

118) University- Nalanda University
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