Basic General Knowledge
General Knowledge

First in India (Male)



First in India (Male)

First Governer of Bengal Lord Clive (1757-60)
Lasr Governer of Bengal Warren Hastings (1772-74)
First Governor General of Bengal Warren Hastings (1774-85)
Last Governor General of Bengal Lord William Bentic (1833-35)
Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India Lord Canning (1856-62)
First president of Indian National Congress W. C. Banerjee
First Indian Governor General of Independent India C. Rajgopalchri
First Indian to pass ICS Surendra Nath Banerjee
First Indian I.C.S. Officer Satyendra Nath Tagore
first Governor General of India ( after independence ) Lord Louis Mounlbatten
First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) Rakesh Sharma
First temporary President of the Constituent Assembly Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha
First Commander-in-Chief of Free India General K. M. Cariappa
First Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award Dr. S. Radliakrishnan
The President of Constituent Assembly Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Indian to swim across the English Channel Mihir Sen
First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award G. Shankar Kurup
First Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar (1952-57)
First Person to make Printing Press popular in India James Hicky
First Education Minister of Independent India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
First President of Indian Republica Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Prime Minister of Independent India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Vice-President of Independent India Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Chief of Army Staff General M. Rajenda Singh
First Chief of Naval Staff of India Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari
First large-scale Atomic Reactor of India Apsara (1965)
First Person to get Paramvir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
First Atomic Submarine of India I. N. S. Chakra
First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize C V. Raman (Physics)
First Indian Submarine I. N. S. Cauveri
First Scientist of Indian origin, to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science Dr. Hargovind Khurana
First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship I.N.S. Vikrant
First Medium Range Missile Agni
First Indian Missile Prithvi
First e-business News Paper of India Financial Express
First Scientist of Indian origin to win Nobel Prize in Physics Subrahmanium Chandrashekhar
India's first Nuclear Centre Tarapur
India's first Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University
India's first minister to resign from Union Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950)
First British to visit India Hawkins
First Asian Games organized Delhi (in 1951)
India's first Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen
First Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badmddin Tayab Ji
First Chief Justice of India Justice Hiralal J. Kania
India's first University Nalanda University
First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without Oxygen cylinder Sherpa Phu Dorji
First foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna Khan Abdul Gatffar Khan
First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics Dr. Amartya Sen
First Army Institute of Information Technology founded Hyderabad
First Test Tube Baby of India Indira ( Baby Harsha )
First Indian Pilot J. R. D. Tata
First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan (1960)
First Post- Office opened in India Kolkata
First Deputy Prime Minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
First Indian prime Minister to resign from office Morarji Desai
First Indian prime Minister to loose an Election Indira Gandhi
First President of India to die in office Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Man to climb Mt. Everest twice Nawang Gombu
First Indian to reach the South Pole I. K. Bajaj
First Indian recipient of Oscar Award Bhanu Athaiya
First Indian author to get Anderson Award Ruskin Bond
First Indian Space Tourist Santosh George