List of First Person in India - GK UPDATES

First President of Independent India - Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950 - 1962) 

·        First Vice-President of Independent India - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 – 1962)           

·        First Prime Minister of India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru (1947 – 1964)          

·        First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947 – 1950)              

·        First President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee (1885)         

·        First Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967 – 1969)   

·        First British Governor General of India - Warren Hastings (1773 – 1785)  

·        First British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning (1858 - 1862)    

·        First Governor General of Independent India - Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)               

·        First Indian Governor General of Independent India - C. Rajagopalachari (1948 – 1950)

·        First Indian to join Indian Civil Service - Satyendranath Tagore (1864)      

·        India's First Man in Space - Rakesh Sharma (1984)    

·        First President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1969)

·        First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh (1979 - 1980)    

·        First Prime Minister in India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai (1977 – 1979)  

·        First Education Minister of Independent India - Abdul Kalam Azad            

·        First Home Minister of Independent India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel                  

·        First Finance Minister of Independent India - R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty

·        First Railway Minister of Independent India - John Mathai                   

·        First Agriculture Minister of Independent India - P.S. Deshmukh               

·        First Speaker of the Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavalankar (1952 – 1956)             

·        First Chief Justice of India - Justice H.J. Kania (1950 – 1951)                           

·        First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore (1913)                   

·        First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V. Raman (1930)  

·        First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr. Amartya Sen (1998)      

·        First Scientist Indian origin, to get Nobel prize in the field of Medical Science - Dr. Har Govind Khurana (1963)                                                         

·        First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry  - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)    

·        First Bharat Ratna Award Recipients - C. Rajagopalachari, C.V.Raman, S.Radhakrishnan (1954)             

·        First foreigner recipient of Bharat Ratna Award - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) Pakistan    

·        First Jnanpeeth Award Recipient - Shankar Karup (1965) (Malayalam)     

·        First Indian to win Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave (1958) 

·        First Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray (1992)                      

·        First Individual Olympic Gold Medal - Abhinav Bindra (2008)          

·        First Indian to win back to back medals in Olympics - Sushil Kumar (2008, 2012)

·        First Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)      

·        First Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen (1958)

·        First Indian to climb Mount Everest - Nawang Gombu (1963)

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