First in India – List of First in India – Science & Technology, Sports & Other
This is a static General Knowledge (GK) topic. The reason behind calling it static is, the information given in the below article is never going to change. The names and their achievements will forever be etched in the history of India. The below article covers information on the list of achievements in the fields of science & technology, governance, defense, sports and architecture.
Candidates would find this topic very helpful in the IAS Exam.
The Below gives the list of important achievements in the field of Science & Technology
1. Who was the First Governor-General of Independent India?
Ans: Lord Lewis Mountbatten
2. Who was the First Indian Governor-General of Independent India ?
Ans: Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
3. Who was the First Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India ?
Ans: General KodanderaMadappa Cariappa, 1949
4. Who was the First Field Marshall ?
Ans: General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
5. Who was the First Speaker of loksabha ?
Ans: Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
6. Who was the First President of India?
Ans: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
7. Who was the First Vice-President of India?
Ans: Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
8. Who was the First Prime-Minister of India?
Ans: Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
9. Who was the First Home Minister of India?
Ans: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
10. Who was the First Finance Minister of India ?
Ans: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
11. Who was the First Auditor General of India ?
Ans: V. Narahari Rao
12. Who was the First Director of CBI?
Ans: DP Kohli
13. Who was the First National Security Adviser of India?
Ans: Brijesh Mishra
14. Who was the First Governor of RBI?
Ans: Sir Osborne Smith
15. Who was the First Non-Congress Prime-Minister ?
Ans: Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
16. Who was the First British Governor-General of Bengal?
Ans: Warren-Hastings
17. Who was the First Space traveler?
Ans: S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
18. Who was the First C. S.?
Ans: Satendra Nath Tagore
19. Who was the First Woman IAS?
Ans: Anna Ranjan George, 1950
20. Who was the First Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna?
Ans: Sachin Tendulkar
21. Who was the First Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming ?
Ans: Mihir Sen
22. Who was the First Woman to swim across the English Channel ?Ans: AratiSaha, 1959
23. Who was the First Raman-Magsaysay awardee ?
Ans: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
24. Who was the First Nobel prize winner in India ?
Ans: Rabindra Nath Tagore
25. Who was the First Nobel Prize in Physics in India?
Ans: C. V. Raman in 1930
26. Who was the First President of National Congress ?
Ans: Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
27. Who was the First Chairman of Lok Sabha ?
Ans: G. B. Mavlankar
28. Who was the First Woman Chief Minister ?
Ans: Sucheta Kriplani
29. Who was the First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha ?
Ans: Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
30. Who was the First Chief Election Commissioner ?
Ans: Sukumar Sen
31. Who was the First Indian Chairman in International Court?
Ans: Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
32. Who was the First Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna ?
Ans: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
33. Who was the First Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission ?
Ans: Dr. Syed ZahuvQuasim
34. Who was the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court ?
Ans: Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
35. Who was First Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ ?
Ans: Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, ChakravartiRajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman
36. Who was the First Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ ?
Ans: Indira Gandhi
37. Who was the First Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters ?
Ans: Mrinal Sen
38. Who was the First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter ?
Ans: Sivaji Ganeshan
39. Who was the FirstPosthumally Bharat RatnaAwardee ?
Ans: Lal Bahadur Shastri
40. Who was the First Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-PeethPurskar?
Ans: G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
41. Who was the First Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-PeethPurskar?
Ans: Ashapurna Devi, 1976
42. Who was the First Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner ?
Ans: Amrita Pritam, 1956
43. Who was the First Woman HonoursGraduate ?
Ans: Kamini Roy
44. Who was the First Woman Director General of Police?
Ans: Kanchan C Bhattacharya
45. Who was the First Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart ?
Ans: Dr. P. Venugopal
46. Who was the First Woman to received NobalPrize ?
Ans: Mother Teresa
47. Who was the First Woman Governor in India?
Ans: Sarojini Naidu
48. Who was the First Licensed Pilot in India?
Ans: J R D Tata
49. Who was the First Woman Air Pilot ?
Ans: Durba Banerjee
50. Who was the First Woman Teacher in India?
Ans: Savitribai Phule
51. Who was the First Successful heart transplanted person in India?
Ans: Devi Ram (1994)
52. Who was the First President of National Human Rights Commission?
Ans: Justice Rangnath Mishra
53. Who was the First Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan PeethPurskar?
Ans: Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
54. Who was the First Indian who won the World Billiard award ?
Ans: Wilson Jans
55. Who was the First Indian who won the Grammy award ?
Ans: Pt. Ravi Shankar
56. Who was the First Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. ?
Ans: Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
57. Who was the First Indian member in British House of Commons ?
Ans: Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
58. Who was the First First President of Indian Science Congress ?
Ans: Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
59. Who was the First Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times?
Ans: Sherpa-Augarita
60. Who was the First Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ ?
Ans: Ramvilas Sharma
61. Who was the First Indian Managing Director of World Bank ?
Ans: Gautam Kazi
62. Who was the First Player awarded ‘PadamBhusan’ ?
Ans: C. K. Naidu
63. Who was the First Actress to win Padma Shri Award ?
Ans: Nargis Dutt, 1958
64. Who was the First Indian players who played Davis Cup ?
Ans: M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
65. Who was the First Tennis Grandslam title winner ?
Ans: Mahesh Bhupati
66. Who was the First Indian player who played the test cricket ?
Ans: K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
67. Who was the First Scientist elected for Lok Sabha ?
Ans: Dr. MeghnadSaha
68. Who was the First Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award?
Ans: Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
69. Who was the First Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar?
Ans: C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
70. Who was the First Person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain ?
Ans: V. K. Krishna-Menon
71. Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize ?
Ans: Dr. SafuddinKichlu (1952)
72. First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament ?
Ans: Lal Mohan Ghose
73. Who was the First Woman Graduates?
Ans: KadambiniGanguly and ChandramukhiBasu, 1883
74. Who was the First Woman Chief Justice of High Court ?
Ans: Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
75. Who was the First An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period ?
Ans: Ram Prasad Ram
76. Who was the First Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council ?
Ans: Sir. S. P. Sinha
77. Who was the FirstLeanin Peace Prize winner?
Ans: Saifuddin Kitchlew
78. Who was the First Chairman of Finance Commission ?
Ans: K. C. Niogi
79. Who was the First Woman Doctorate of Science ?
Ans: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
80. Who was the First Woman IPS ?
Ans: Kiran Bedi
81. Who was the First Woman Supreme Court judge ?
Ans: Kumari Fathima Beevi
82. Who was the First Indian member of American Congress ?
Ans: Deleep Singh
83. Who was the First Editor of Time Magazine
Ans: Bobby Ghosh
84. Who was the First Director of CBI becoming Governor ?
Ans: Ashwani Kumar
85. Who was the First Person to reach the North Pole ?
Ans: Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
86. Who was the First Person to reach the South Pole ?
Ans: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
87. Who was the First Nishan-e-Pakistan ?
Ans: Morarji Desai, 1990
88. Who was the First Magsaysay Award winner?
Ans: Vinoba Bhave, 1958
89. Who was the First Miss World ?
Ans: Reita Faria in 1966
90. Who was the First Miss Asia Pacific ?
Ans: Zeenat Aman in 1970
91. Who was the First Miss Universe ?
Ans: Sushmita Sen in 1994
92. Who was the First Miss Earth ?
Ans: Nicole Faria in 2010
93. Who was the First Place to get electricity?
Ans: Darjeeling in 1897
94. Who was the First Sound film?
Ans: Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
95. Who was the FirstColourfilm ?
Ans: KisanKanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
96. Who was the First Oscar winner ?
Ans: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
97. Who was the First Dadasaheb Phalke Award ?
Ans: Devika Rani in 1969
98. Who was the First Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters ?
Ans: Sivaji Ganesan
99. Who was the First Test-tube baby ?
Ans: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
100. Who was the First Newspaper ?
Ans: Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760
101. Who was the first Lady Doctor ?
Ans: Anandibai Joshi
102. Which was the first Satellite of India?
Ans: Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
103. Who was the First Man to climb Mt Everest ?
Ans: Tenzing Norgay
104. Who was the First Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen?
Ans: PhuDorjee, 1984
105. Who was the First Woman to climb Mt everest?
Ans: Bachendri Pal
106. Who was the First District to achieve 100% literacy rate ?
Ans: Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
107. Who was the First Captain in Tests ?
Ans: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
108. Who was the First ODI captain?
Ans: AjitWadekar
109. Who was the First Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket?
Ans: Harbhajan Singh
110. Who was the First Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket?
Ans: Virendra Sehwag
111. Who was the FirstFirst Marshal of Indian Air Force?
Ans: Arjan Singh
112. Who won the First Individual Medal in Olympic games?
Ans: KD Jadhav
113. Who won the first Grandmaster?
Ans: Viswanathan Anad
114. Who won the first Woman Grandmaster ?
Ans: Koneru Humpy
115. Who was the First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games?
Ans: Abhinav Bindra
116. Who was the First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games ?
Ans: Vijendra Kumar
117. Who was the First Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ?
Ans: Srinivasa Ramanujan
118. Who was the First Fellow of the Royal Society ?
Ans: ArdaseerCursetjee
119. Who was the First Woman External Affairs Minister ?
Ans: Sushma Swaraj
120. Who was the First First Gold Medallist on International Track ?
Ans: Hima Das
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