First in India

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

Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna

Sachin Tendulkar

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

Nobel prize winner

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Nobel Prize in Physics

C. V. Raman in 1930

President of National Congress

—Wyomesh 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 Ratna’

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 Commissioner 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

Woman External Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj