First Persons in India
1) President – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2) Prime-Minister – Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3) Indian Governor-General of Independent India – Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
4) Speaker of Loksabha – Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
5) Home Minister – Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
6) Vice-President – Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
7) Governor of RBI – Sir Osborne Smith
8) Finance Minister of India – R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
9) Woman Governor – Sarojini Naidu
10)Chief Justice of Supreme Court – Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
11) Chief Election Commissioner – Sukumar Sen
12) Colour Film – Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
13) First Woman Chief Minister – Sucheta Kriplani
14) Sound Film – Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
15) Miss Earth – Nicole Faria in 2010
16) Miss Asia Pacific – Zeenat Aman in 1970
17) Raman-Magsaysay Awardee – Acharya Vinoba Bhave
18) Nobel Prize Winner – Rabindra Nath Tagore
19) First Lady Doctor – Anandibai Joshi
20) Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ – Indira Gandhi
21) Indian Who Won the Grammy Award – Pt. Ravi Shankar
22) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner – Amrita Pritam, 1956
23) Literature Who Was Awarded Murti Devi Purskar – C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
24) Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Devika Rani (1969)
25) Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
26) Won the Booker Prize – Arundhati Roy for her novel “The God of Small Things” (1997).
27) Writer Who Was Awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ – Ramvilas Sharma
28) Woman To Receive Nobel Prize – Mother Teresa
29) Governor-General of Independent India – Lord Lewis Mountbatten
30) Magsaysay Award – Vinoba Bhave, 1958
31) Miss World – Reita Faria in 1966
32) Foreigner Awardees’ Of Bharat Ratna – Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
33) Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen in 1994
34) First President of Indian Science Congress – Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
35) President of National Congress – Womesh Chandra Banerjee
36) Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha – Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009