India's first

•Governor-General of Independent
India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten
• Indian Governor-General of
Independent India—Chakravarti
Rajgopalachari
• Indian Commander-in-Chief of
Free India —General Kodandera
Madappa Cariappa, 1949
• Field Marshall—General S. H. F.
J. Manekshaw
• Speaker of loksabha—Shri G.V.
Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27
February 1956).
• President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan
• Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal
Nehru
• Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh
Bhai Patel
• Finance Minister of India—R. K.
Shanmukham Chetty
• Auditor General of India—V.
Narahari Rao
• Director of CBI— DP Kohli
• National Security Adviser—
Brijesh Mishra
• Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne
Smith
• Non-Congress Prime-Minister—
Morarji Desai from Janata Party in
1977-79.
• British Governor-General of Bengal
—Warren-Hastings
• Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh
Sharma
• C. S.—Satendra Nath Tagore
• Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George,
1950
• Swimmer who crossed over the
English channel by swimming—
Mihir Sen
• Woman to swim across the English
Channel—Arati Saha, 1959
• Raman-Magsaysay awardee—
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Novel prize winner—Rabindra
Nath Tagore
• Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V.
Raman in 1930
• President of National Congress—
Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
• Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B.
Mavlankar
• First Woman Chief Minister—
Sucheta Kriplani
• Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—
Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
• Chief Election Commissioner—
Sukumar Sen
• Indian Chairman in International
Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
• Foreigner awardee of Bharat
Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Leader of the Indian Antarctica
Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—
Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan,
Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B.
Raman
• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat
Ratnas’— Indira Gandhi
• Commandeur of the Order of Arts
and Letters— Mrinal Sen
• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and
Letter—Sivaji Ganeshan
• Posthumally Bharat Ratna
Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-
Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup
(Malayalam–1965)
• 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
• Successful Surgeon who
transplanted heart—Dr. P.
Venugopal
• Woman to received Nobal Prize—
Mother Teresa
• Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
• 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
• Hindi Literature person-awarded
Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—
Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
• Indian who won the World
Billiard award—Wilson Jans
• Indian who won the Grammy
award—Pt. Ravi Shankar
• 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)
• First President of Indian Science
Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
• Mountaineer who scaled Mount
Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita
• Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas
Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma
• Indian Managing Director of
World Bank—Gautam Kazi
• Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—
C. K. Naidu
• Actress to win Padma Shri Award
—Nargis Dutt, 1958
• Indian players played Davis Cup—
M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles),
A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare
(Doubles) (1921)
• Tennis Grandslam title winner—
Mahesh Bhupati
• Indian player who played the test
cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from
England)
• Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—
Dr. Meghnad Saha
• Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das
Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta
(1991)
• Literature who was awarded
Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj
Rao (1993)
• Person, who became High
Commission in Great Britain—V. K.
Krishna-Menon
• Indian who was awarded the
Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin
Kichlu (1952)
• First Indian who contested the
election for British Parliament—Lal
Mohan Ghose
• Woman Graduates—Kadambini
Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu,
1883
• Woman Chief Justice of High
Court—Leila Seth, Himachal
Pradesh, 1991
• An Indian, appointed the judge of
High Court, during the British
period—Ram Prasad Ram
• Indian member of Viceroy
Executive Council—Sir. S. P. Sinha
• Leanin Peace Prize— Saifuddin
Kitchlew
• 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
• Nishan-e-Pakistan—Morarji Desai,
1990
• Magsaysay Award—Vinoba Bhave,
1958
• 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
• Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for
Best Costume Design for Gandhi
(film) in 1982.
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award—Devika
Rani in 1969
• 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
• Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing
Norgay
• Man to climb Mt Everest without
oxygen—Phu Dorjee, 1984
• Woman to climb Mt everest—
Bachendri Pal
• District to achieve 100% literacy
rate—Ernakulam district, Kerala,
1990
• Captain in Tests—C. K. Nayudu
for the 1932 tour of England
• ODI captain—Ajit Wadekar
• Bowler who made hat-trick in
Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh
• Batsman who made 300 runs in
test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag
• First Marshal of Indian Air Force
—Arjan Singh
• Individual Medal in Olympic
games—KD Jadhav
• Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad
• Woman Grandmaster—Koneru
Humpy
• First Indian who individually won
the Gold medal in Olympic games—
Abhinav Bindra
• First Indian who won the Bronze
medal in Boxing in Olympic games—
Vijendra Kumar
• Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge—Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Fellow of the Royal Society—
Ardaseer Cursetjee