First In India (Male)

 List Of First In India (Male)

Persons who accomplish any achievement for the first time set a benchmark for others to follow and as such make the whole nation to feel proud on them. Since these individuals achieve what had not been previously achieved by anyone before them, it becomes indispensable to be aware of them. And as such ‘First Indians’ have been a prominent category in the Static GK section of various competitive examinations like IIFT, Bank-PO, SSC etc. Besides being important for these competitive examinations, it is must to know the names of these personalities for acing various interviews including that of prestigious IIMs. So here is a list of ‘First in India’.

2Serial No.	Category	Name
1	First Governor Of Bengal	Lord Clive
2.	Last Governor Of Bengal	Warren Hastings
3.	First Governor General Of Bengal	Warren Hastings
4.	First Governor General Of India	Lord William Bentinck
5.	Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
6.	First President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
7.	First and Last Indian Governor General Of Independent India	C.Rajgopalachari
8.	First Indian to Pass ICS	Satyendra Nath Tagore
9.	First Commander-in-Chief of Free India	General K.M. Cariappa
10.	First Indian Novel Laureate	Rabindranath Tagore
11.	First Indian Judge of The International Court of Justice	Dr.Nagendra Singh
12.	First Indian to Get Bharat Ratna Award	Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
13.	First Field Marshal	General S.F.J. Manekshaw
14.	The President of Constituent Assembly	Dr.Rajendra Prasad
15.	First Indian to Swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen
16.	First Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr.Zakir Hussain
17.	First Speaker of Lok sabha	G.V.Mavlankar
18.	First person to make printing press popular in India	James Hicky
19.	First Education Minister of Independent India	Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
20.	First President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
21.	First Prime Minister of Independent India	pt.Jawahar Lal Nehru
22.	First Home Minister of Independent India	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
23.	First Vice President of Independent India	Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
24.	First Chief of Air Staff	Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
25.	First Chief of Army staff	General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Ji Jadeja
26.	First Chief of Naval staff of India	Vice-admiral R.D. Katari
27.	First CDS(Chief of Defence Staff) of India	General Bipin Rawat
28.	First Person to Get Paramvir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
29.	First Indian Scientists to Get Nobel Prize	C.V.Raman(Physics)
30.	First Chinese Pilgrim to visit India	Fa-hien
31.	First Scientist of Indian Origin to win Nobel Prize in Physics	Subramanyan Chandrashekhar
32.	First NSA(National Security Advisor) of India	Brajesh Mishra
33.	First Indian to win Stalin Award	Saifuddin Kitchlew
34.	First Indian to Win Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
35.	India's First Election Commission	Sukumar Sen
36.	First Chief Justice of India	Justice Hiralal J.Kania
37.	First Indian to Climb My.Everest without Oxygen Cylinder	Sherpa Phu Dorji (Climbed on 9th May 1984)
38.	First Foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
39.	First Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata
40.	First Indian to reach Antarctica	Lt. Ram Charan
41.	First Man to Climb Mt. Everest twice	Nawang Gombu Sherpa

First Governor Of Bengal --Lord Clive

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency.

Last Governor Of Bengal --Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor General of Fort William in Bengal which ended the title of Governor of Bengal.

First Governor General Of Bengal Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first de facto Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.

 First Governor General Of India Lord William Bentinck

Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman. He served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835.

Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India --Lord Canning

Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning, KG, GCB, KSI, PC (14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862), also known as The Viscount Canning and Clemency Canning was an British statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the first Viceroy of India after the transfer of power from the East India

First President of Indian National Congress --W.C. Banerjee

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee by current English orthography of Bengali names) (29 December 1844 – 21 July 1906) was an Indian barrister. He was the co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress.

First and Last Indian Governor General Of Independent India --C.Rajgopalachari

Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950. He was also the first Indian-born governor-general,

First Indian to Pass ICS --Satyendra Nath Tagore

All this made it difficult for Indian candidates. Nevertheless, in 1864, the first Indian, Shri Satyendranath Tagore brother of Shri Rabindaranath Tagore succeeded. Three years later 4 other Indians succeeded.

First Commander-in-Chief of Free India General --K.M. Cariappa

Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa OBE (28 January 1899;– 15 May 1993) was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Army.

First Indian Novel Laureate --Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his poetry collection Gitanjali. Rabindranath Tagore, India's first Nobel laureate, was born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861. He was a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.

First Indian Judge of The International Court of Justice --Dr.Nagendra Singh

Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh (18 March 1914 – 11 December 1988) was an Indian lawyer and administrator who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1985 to 1988. He was one of the four judges from India to have been Judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, 

First Indian to Get Bharat Ratna Award --Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1954. Dr Radhakrishnan became India's second President in 1962 and his birthday has been celebrated as Teachers' Day in the country since then. He died on May 13, 1967.

Radhakrishnan was awarded several high awards during his life, including a knighthood in 1931, the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India, in 1954, and honorary membership of the British Royal Order of Merit in 1963.

First Field Marshal --General S.F.J. Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971,

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's best-known soldier and the architect of the country's victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan that gave birth to Bangladesh, died in Wellington, India, on Friday. He was 94. The cause was pneumonia, India's Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The President of Constituent Assembly --Dr.Rajendra Prasad

Upon independence in 1947, Prasad was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India, which prepared the Constitution of India and served as its provisional parliament. When India became a republic in 1950, Prasad was elected its first president by the Constituent Assembly.

First Indian to Swim across the English Channel --Mihir Sen

Mihir Sen (Born on 16 November 1930 in a Baidya family and passed away on 11 June 1997) was a famous Indian long distance swimmer and businessman. He was the first Indian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958, and did so in the fourth fastest time (14 hrs & 45 mins).

First Muslim President of Indian Republic --Dr.Zakir Hussain

He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 1963. He was the first Muslim president of India and the first Indian president to die in office.