In this article, you will get a comprehensive list of first in world (first male and first female of the world). This list is important from the examination point of view.
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First in World (Male)
| First in World/Male | Name |
|---|---|
| First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| First blind man to scale Mount Everest | Eric Weihenmayer |
| First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst |
| First Chief of Army Staff | General Maharaj Rajendra Singh Ji |
| First country to win the football World Cup | Uruguay |
| First Cricketer to get Padma Bhushan | C. Naidu |
| First Ethnic-Indian Prime Minister of Fiji | Mahendra Chaudhary |
| First European invader of Indian soil | Alexander, The Great |
| First European to visit China | Marco Polo |
| First Field Marshal of India | SHFJ Manekshaw |
| First Governor-General of India | William Bentinck |
| First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| First Indian Air Chief Marshal | Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee OBE |
| First Indian Air Chief Marshal | Subroto Mukherjee |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| First Indian Pilot | JRD Tata |
| First Indian to get a Grammy Award | Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| First Indian to get the Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V. Raman |
| First Indian to Receive the Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| First Indian to score a triple century in Test Cricket | Virender Sehwag |
| First Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Indian to win the Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| First Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First man to climb Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| First man to climb Mt. Everest | Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary |
| First man to draw the map of Earth | Anaximander |
| First man to fly an aeroplane | Wright Brothers |
| First man to go into space | Major Yuri Gagarin |
| First man to hit a double century in One Day International | Sachin Tendulkar |
| First man to reach the North Pole | Robert Peary |
| First man to reach the South Pole | Ronald Amundsen |
| First man to set foot on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| First man to walk in space | Alexei Leonov |
| First man to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry | Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff |
| First man to win the Nobel Prize for Economics | Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen |
| First man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature | Sully Prudhomme |
| First man to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine | Emil von Behring |
| First man to win the Nobel Prize for Physics | Wilhelm Röntgen (Germany) |
| First Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| First person of Indian origin to get the Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargobind Khorana |
| First person to get the Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First person to reach Mount Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| First person to receive the Jnanpith Award | G. Sankara Kurup |
| First person to receive the Jnanpith Award | Sir Shankar Kurup |
| First person to receive the Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First person to receive the Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlew |
| First person to sail around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| First person to stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan | Lord Irwin |
| First President of the Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First President of the Republic of China | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen |
| First President of the U.S.A. | George Washington |
| First Prime Minister of Great Britain | Sir Robert Walpole |
| First Prime Minister of India who resigned before the full term | Morarji Desai |
| First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India | Nikolai Bulganin |
| First Secretary-General of the United Nations | Trygve Lie |
| First UN Deputy Secretary-General | Louise Frechette |
| Governor of Reserve Bank of India | Sir Osborne Smith |
| Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Louis Mountbatten |
| India’s first man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
| Pakistan’s first Governor-General | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| President of the National Congress | Vyomesh Chand Banerjee |
| First sports person to receive Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar |
| The first Indian to join ICS | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| The first man to introduce the printing press in India | James Hickey |
First in World (Female)
| First in World Female | Name |
|---|---|
| First woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| First woman Airline Pilot | Durga Banerjee |
| First woman Ambassador | C.B. Muthamma |
| First woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamaljit Sandhu |
| First woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Rose Millian Bethew |
| First woman Chairperson of Indian Air Lines | Sushma Chawla |
| First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Sucheta Kripalani |
| First woman cosmonaut in space | Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) |
| First woman Director General of Police | Kanchan C. Bhattacharya |
| First woman Governor of a State in free India | Sarojini Naidu |
| First woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy |
| First woman in the world to cross the Strait of Gibraltar | Arti Pradhan |
| First woman IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi |
| First woman Judge | Anna Chandy |
| First woman Judge in Supreme Court | Fatima Beevi |
| First woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| First woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| First woman Minister in Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| First woman Olympic Medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari |
| First woman Pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| First woman President of a country | Maria Estela Peron |
| First woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs. Annie Besant |
| First woman President of UN General Assembly | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| First woman Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| First woman Prime Minister in the world | S. Bandaranaike |
| First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country | Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) |
| First woman Prime Minister of England | Margaret Thatcher |
| First woman space tourist | Mrs. Anousheh Ansari |
| First woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| First woman to become Miss World | Reita Faria |
| First woman to chair the US Central Bank ‘Federal Reserve’ | Janet Yellen |
| First woman to climb Mount Everest | Junko Tabei (Japan) |
| First woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| First woman to cross the English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| First female umpire to officiate in a Men’s T20 cricket match | Kim Cotton |
| First women officer to be operationally deployed in the highest battleground on Siachen | Shiva Chauhan |
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