| 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 |