| Name of Field |
Name of person |
| First subscriber trunk dialing route
commissioned |
Lucknow and Kanpur. |
| First PCM system commissioned |
Mumbai City and Andheri |
| First satellite earth station for
domestic communications |
Secunderabad, A.P. |
| First analog Stored Program Control
exchange for trunk lines commissioned |
Mumbai. |
| First Underground Metro Railways System |
Calcutta. |
| First technology park in India |
Technopark, Trivandrum was launched |
| First mobile telephone service
started |
Delhi |
| First president of the inaugural session
of the Indian Science Congress |
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee |
| First Hydroelectric plant |
Sidrapong near Darjeeling |
| Place to get electricity |
Darjeeling |
| First Man in space |
Rakesh Sharma |
| First Woman in space |
Kalpana Chawla |
| First Test-tube baby |
Durga Agarwal |
| First Nuclear Reactor |
Apsara |
| First Genetically Modified Food Product
in India |
Bt. Egg plant Hybrid |
| First Satellite |
Aryabhata |
| First Satellite dedicated exclusively for
educational services |
EDUSAT |
| First Successfully indigenous launch
vehicle |
SLV-3 |
| First ospective space tourist |
Santhosh George Kulangara |
| Frst Cloned Animal |
Bhass |
| First experimental electric telegraph
line |
Kolkata and Diamond Harbor |
| First wireless telegraph station |
Sagar Islands and Sandheads |
| First Central Battery of telephones |
Kanpur |
| First Automatic Exchange |
Shimla |
| First Radio-telegraph system |
UK and India |
| First Radiotelephone system
inaugurated |
UK and India |
| First Graduate in Medicine |
Surjo Kumar Chakraborty |
| First Ever Rhinoplasty noted in
world/India |
Kumhar Vaidya. |
| First physician in India and second in
the world to perform the In vitro fertilization |
Subhash Mukhopadhyay. |
| First in India to receive a fellowship of
the International Federation for Emergency Medicine |
Dr. K. Hari Prasad |
| First Indian to swim across the English
Channel |
Mihir Sen |
| First Woman to swim across the English
Channel |
Arati Saha |
| First Formula One driver |
Narain Karthikeyan |
| First Formula One team |
Force India F1 |
| First A1 GP race victory |
Narain Karthikeyan, |
| First Person to equal world record in
Archery |
|
| First Person to walk across the Mongolian
Gobi Desert |
Sucheta Kadethankar |
| First Indian to win a medal in both Asian
games |
Ashish Kumar |
| First Indian to win 2 Gold Medals at the
Asia Cup |
Shiva Keshavan |
| first Indian to win back to back Olympic
medals Bronze and Silver |
Sushil Kumar |
| first World Peace Sports Festival
Ambassador from India |
Santhi Soundarajan |
| Olympic team medal Gold in Field Hockey |
Amsterdam beating the
Netherlands |
| Individual medal Bronze |
K. D. Jadhav |
| First Medal in Tennis |
Leander Paes |
| First Individual Gold medal |
Abhinav Bindra |
| First Individual Silver medal
(Independent India) |
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore |
| First Medal in boxing |
Vijender Kumar |
| First bronze medal in the London Olympics
in Badminton |
Saina Nehwal |
| First Bronze medal in the Beijing
Olympics in wrestling |
Sushil Kumar, |
| First Bronze Medal in wrestling in London
Olympics |
Yogeshwar Dutt |
| First Male Chess Grandmaster |
Viswanathan Anand, |
| First Female chess player |
Koneru Humpy |
| First Cricket Club in India |
Calcutta now Kolkata |
| First test match played in India |
India v/s England in Eden Gardens |
| First Indian Cricket Captain |
Sourav Ganguly |
| First Cricket Stadium |
Eden Gardens |
| First Indian Captain to win more than 21
test matches as a captain |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
| First Captain in |
C. K. Nayudu |
| First ODI captain |
Ajit Wadekar. |
| First Cricketer to score a century in a
Test match |
Lala Amarnath |
| First Indian to score the highest runs in
a World Cup |
Sourav Ganguly |
| First Cricketer to score a double century
in a Test match |
Polly Umrigar, |
| First Cricketer to score a triple century
in a Test match |
Virender Sehwag |
| First Indian to score an ODI century |
Kapil Dev |
| First Indian to score two ODI double
centuries and the highest individual runs in ODI is |
Rohit Sharma |
| First Hat-trick in an ODI |
Chetan Sharma |
| First World Cup Runners up captain |
Sourav Ganguly |
| First World Cup |
India beat West Indies in the Finals |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in
Tests |
Sunil Gavaskar |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in
ODIs |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| First Winner of the T20 World Cup |
India |
| First Cricketer to score 100 centuries in
Test and ODIs |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an
innings |
Anil Kumble |
| First batsman to score 50 centuries in
Test Cricket |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| First woman to score a double hundred in
Test cricket |
Mithali Raj |
| First Sixer sixes in an Over |
Yuvraj Singh |
| Fastest Fifty in a T20I 50 runs of 12
balls |
Yuvraj Singh |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in
Literature |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in Physics |
C. V. Raman |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in medicine |
Har Gobind Khorana |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in Peace |
Mother Teresa |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in
Economics |
Amartya Sen |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in
Chemistry |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
| First Indian to recieve Noble in Peace |
Kailash Sathyarthi |
| First Indian to recieve oscar award |
Bhanu Athaiya |
| First Dam in the India |
Kallanai Dam |
| First Stepwell still existing |
Mata Bhavani's Stepwell. |
| First temple constructed from a single
rock |
Kailasa temple |
| First temple in Kalinga architecture |
Konark |
| First temple with many interconnected
structures |
Brihadeeswarar Temple |
| First Islamic (tomb) in India |
Sultan Ghari Sultan Ghari |
| First true dome |
Alai Darwaza |
| First true arch |
Balban's tomb |
| First garden-tomb on the Indian
subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome |
Humayun's Tomb |
| First Mosque in India |
Cheraman Juma Masjid |
| Mr. Universe |
Manohar Aich |
| Miss World |
Reita Faria |
| Miss Asia Pacific |
Zeenat Aman |
| International Teen Princess |
Radha Bartake |
| Miss Teenage Intercontinental |
Elizabeth Anita Reddi |
| Miss World Amber |
Mala Rai Singani |
| World Miss University |
Priyadarshini Pradhan |
| Miss Universe |
Sushmita Sen |
| Miss India Worldwide |
Karminder Kaur Virk |
| Miss Intercontinental |
Lara Dutta |
| Mr. International |
Aryan Vaid |
| Manhunt International |
Rajeev Singh |
| Miss Tourism International |
Candice Pinto |
| Mrs. World |
Aditi Gowitrikar |
| Miss Tourism Queen International |
Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan |
| Miss World Tourism |
Sonal Chauhan |
| Best Model of the World |
Siddharth Shukla |
| Miss Tourism |
Priyanka Shah |
| Miss Earth |
Nicole Faria |
| Miss Tourism Queen of the Year
International |
Urvashi Rautela |
| Miss Asia Pacific World |
Himangini Singh Yadu |
| Mister United Nations |
Rahul Vyas |
| Miss Supranational |
Asha Bhat |
| Miss Universal Peace and Humanity |
Ruhi Singh |
| Miss Tourism International |
Parul Bindal |
| First Indian to win any literary
award |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| First Indian to win a major non-fiction
award |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
| Man Booker Prize |
Arundhati Roy |
| First Indian to speak as Orator at the
Harvard University |
Bhaswati Bhattacharya |
| First Indian to recieve Bharat Ratna |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| First Indian to recieve Padma Vibhushan |
Satyendra Nath Bose |
| First Indian to recieve Param Vir
Chakra |
Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Commandeur of the Order of Arts and
Letters |
Mrinal Sen |
| First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and
Letters |
Sivaji Ganesan |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award |
Devika Rani |
| Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian |
D.K. Jatar |
| Magsaysay Award |
Vinoba Bhave |
| Stalin Peace Prize |
Saifuddin Kitchlew |
| Oscar for Lifetime Achievement |
Satyajit Ray |
| Nishan-e-Pakistan |
Morarji Desai |
| President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Prime Minister of Indian Republic |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Vice President of Indian Republic |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Defence Minister of India |
Baldev Singh |
| Commander-in-Chief of Free
India:Kodandera |
Madappa Cariappa |
| Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India |
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa |
| Chief of Air Staff |
Subroto Mukerjee |
| Indian Chief of Staff Indian Army |
Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja |
| Commander-in-Chief, IAF |
Subroto Mukerjee |
| Chief of Naval Staff |
Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey |
| First Indian flying ace |
Indra Lal Roy |
| India's first military helicopter pilot
Air Commodore |
Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar |
| Cosmonaut |
Rakesh Sharma |
| Field Marshal |
Sam Manekshaw |
| First female jawan in the Army |
Sapper Shanti Tigga |
| First Param Vir Chakra Winner |
Major Som Nath Sharma |
| First power in India with Soviet
Collaboration |
Neyveli Lignite Corporation |
| First central PSU to be privatized |
Modern Food Industries in January |
| Person to ride alone around the world on
motorcycle |
Bharadwaj Dayala |
| Person to fly in a balloon and land in a
parachute |
Shibnath Majumdar |
| Person to reach the South Pole |
Bijoy Kumar Das |
| Woman to scale Mount Everest |
Bachendri Pal |
| Person to reach Mount Everest without
oxygen |
Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| Woman to reach South Pole |
Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu |
| Person to reach the North Pole |
Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan |
| Person to have walked across Gobi desert |
Sucheta Kadethankar |
| Youngest one in the world to climb
Everest |
Malavath Purna |
| First Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient |
Devika Rani |
| First 3-D film |
My Dear Kuttichathan, a Malayalam film, |
| Sponsored TV serial |
Hum Log |
| First film to shoot underwater Kannada
movie |
Ondu Muttina Kathe |
| First Oscar for Lifetime Achievement |
Satyajit Ray |
| First Indian filmmaker to get Bharat
Ratna |
Satyajit Ray |
| First Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Actor |
Sivaji Ganesan |
| First Colorized film |
Mughal-e-Azam |
| Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Actress |
Sharmila Tagore |
| Film screened at the United Nations |
Lage Raho Munna Bhai |
| Actor to enact most roles |
Kamal Haasan |
| First
Music director double Oscar winner |
A. R. Rahman |
| Actress to enact most roles |
Priyanka Chopra |
| President of the Indian National Congress |
Womesh Chandra Bannerjee |
| President of the Indian National Congress
of independent India |
Acharya Kripalani |
| First President |
Rajendra Prasad |
| The first Chief Election
Commissioner |
Sukumar Sen |
| Industries and Supplies Minister |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| The first person to resign from the
Central Cabinet |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| Vice-President |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Prime Minister |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Deputy Prime Minister |
Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Law Minister of India |
B. R. Ambedkar |
| Leader of Opposition |
A. K. Gopalan |
| Prime Minister to be voted out of office |
Indira Gandhi |
| Non-Congress government |
Janata Party |
| Non-Congress State government with
Majority by a single party |
E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI |
| Prime Minister to lead a minority
government for a full term |
P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime
Minister for a full term |
P. V. Narasimha Rao, |
| Non Congress Prime Minister to serve a
full term |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Prime Minister from South India |
P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| The first Viceroy of India |
Lord Canning |
| Governor-General of Independent India |
Lord Mountbatten |
| Indian Governor-General of Indian Union |
C Rajagopalachari |
| First Sikh Prime Minister |
Manmohan Singh |
| First Muslim President |
Zakir Hussain |
| First Sikh President |
Giani Zail Singh |
| Indian ICS Officer |
Satyendranath Tagore |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha |
G.V. Mavlankar |
| Finance Minister of Independent |
R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty |
| Presentation of First Budget after
India's Independence |
R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty |
| First Home Minister of India |
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Indian President to die in Office |
Zakir Hussain |
| First Chief Minister to die in Office |
C.N.Annadurai |
| First Indian Prime Minister to resign
from office |
Morarji Desai |
| First Prime Minister to be born after
India's independence |
Narendra Modi |
| First Governor-General of India |
Warren Hastings |