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First in India - Men

Field Person
First Indian to swim across the English
Channel
Mihir Sen
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First to Climb Mount Everest Tenzing Norgay
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First to climb Mount Everest without
Oxygen
Phy Dorjee
r s
First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now
p
Satyendra
eNath Tagore
IAS)
p a
First Indian to get Nobel Prize
First Indian in Space (first Indian o n Nath Tagore
Rabindra
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh
cosmonaut)
t i Sharma
First British Governor Generals Warren Hastings
e
First Governor General ofuFree India Lord Mountbatten

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First and the last Governor General of
C. Rajagopalachari
free India s
First Presidentp
t n of India
First Vice-President of India
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
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FirstwMuslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain
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w Sikh President of India
First Giani Zail Singh
First Prime Minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

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First Speaker of Lok Sabha G.V. Mavlankar

First Chief Justice of India Justice H.L. Kania
First President of Indian National
W.C. Bannerjee
Congress
o m
First Indian to become member of
Viceroy's Executive Council
Lord S.P. Sinha
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First Indian to become President of
r s
Dr. Nagendra Singh
International Court of Justice
Babar p
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First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty
First Field Marshal p a
S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of o n
India
t i Gen. K.M. Cariappa
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First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian) Sinhji

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First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian)
Vice Admiral R.D.
Katari

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First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India) Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian in p
British Parliament Dada Bhai Nauroji
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First Indian
n
recipient of Victoria Cross
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(highest
w award before independence)
Khudada Khan

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First Indian to circumnavigate the globe Lt. Col K.S. Rao
First Indian to reach the South Pole Col J.K. Bajaj (1989)

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First Indian to make a solo air flight JRD Tata

Raja Rammohan Roy
First Indian to visit England
(1832)
First Indian Member of House of Lords
(British)
Lord S.P. Sinha
o m
First Bar-at-Law J.M. Tagore . c
First Chairman of Rajya Sabha r s
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
e
(1952 - 62)
p
First Indian Test Cricketer
First Air Marshall p
Arjan
a
K.S. Ranjitsingh
Singh
n
First Judge to face impeachment in theo Justice V.Ramaswami
Lock Sabha
t i (1993)

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