First in India
People who accomplish any achievment first time in any field like sports, cinema, politics, and other fields then he or she become the legend.
World always remember those who did something first time, which no-one think to do before.
There are so many people in India who have been achieved success in their respective fields when they entered in that field.
This section of static gk is very important for competitive exams like ibps-op, rrb, railways, ssc cgl, upsc, state and central government exams etc.
We already covered first women in India, section, you can read it and dowload pdf file.
Here the list of first in India (men) is compiled by us and also provided the pdf of this section in the end of the article.
List of First Man in India
S.No. | Field | Name |
1 | First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata |
2 | First President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
3 | First Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
4 | First Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
5 | First Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
6 | First president of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
7 | First Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
8 | First British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
9 | First Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
10 | First British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck |
11 | First and the last Indian Governer General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
12 | First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
13 | First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
14 | First Cheif of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji Jadeja |
15 | First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
16 | First National Security Advisor | Brajesh Mishra |
17 | First Foreign Secretary of India | K.P.S. Menon |
18 | First President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
19 | First Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P. Sinha |
20 | First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V. Raman |
21 | First person to receive Gyanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
22 | First Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
23 | First Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar |
24 | First Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
25 | First Education Minister | Abul Kalam Azad |
26 | First Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukharji |
27 | First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. |
28 | First judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
29 | First person to receive Paramveer Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
30 | First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
31 | First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
32 | First person to receive Magsaysay Award | Achrya Vinoba Bhave |
33 | First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
34 | First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
35 | First person to receive stalin prize | Saifuddin kitchlu |
36 | First man who introduce printing press in India | James Hicky |
37 | First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
38 | First Indian man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
39 | First Indian to join the I.C.S. | Satendranath Tagore |
40 | First Indian pass I.C.S. exam | Surendra Nath Banerjee |
41 | First Minister of Information and Broadcasting | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
42 | First Prime Minister of India who resigned without | Morarji Desai |
43 | First Batter to score double century in ODI cricket match | Sachin Tendulkar |
44 | First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
45 | First Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
46 | First Indian Governor General of Independent India | C. Rajgopalachari |
47 | First Minister of Railways | John Mathai (1947-1948) |
48 | First Minister of Defence | Baldev Singh Chokkar |
49 | First Badminton player of India to achieve world no. 1 spot | Prakash padukone |
50 | First Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Sir Rose Barkar |
51 | First Formula One Driver | Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan |
52 | First Chess Grandmaster of India | Vishavnath Anand |
53 | First Table Tennis player of India to become 9 times Senior National Champion | Achant Sharath Kamal |
54 | First Batsman of India to score a century for India in Test cricket | Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj |
55 | First Indian to win World Amateur Billiards title | Wilson Jones |
56 | First person to reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan |
57 | First Chief Justice of India | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
58 | First Solicitor General of India | C K Daphtary |