Here is a long and complete list of First in India. The list contains achievements which were achieved by extra-ordinary peoples in India in different categories....
- Governor-General of Independent India ------ Lord Lewis Mountbatten
- Indian Governor-General of Independent India ------ Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
- Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India ------ General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
- Field Marshall ------ General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
- Speaker of loksabha ------ Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956)
- President ------ Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Vice-President ------ Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime-Minister ------ Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Home Minister ------ Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- Finance Minister of India ------ R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
- Auditor General of India ------ V. Narahari Rao
- Director of CBI ------ DP Kohli
- National Security Adviser ------ Brijesh Mishra
- Governor of RBI ------ Sir Osborne Smith
- Non-Congress Prime-Minister ------ Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
- British Governor-General of Bengal ------ Warren-Hastings
- Space traveller ------ S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
- C. S. ------ Satendra Nath Tagore
- Woman IAS ------ Anna Ranjan George, 1950
- Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna ------ Sachin Tendulkar
- Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming ------ Mihir Sen
- Woman to swim across the English Channel ------ Arati Saha, 1959
- Raman-Magsaysay awardee ------ Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- Nobel prize winner ------ Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Nobel Prize in Physics ------ C. V. Raman in 1930
- President of National Congress ------ Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
- Chairman of Lok Sabha ------ G. B. Mavlankar
- First Woman Chief Minister ------ Sucheta Kriplani
- Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha ------ Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
- Chief Election Commissioner ------ Sukumar Sen
- Indian Chairman in International Court ------ Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
- Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna ------ Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
- Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission ------ Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
- Chief Justice of Supreme Court ------ Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
- Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ ------ Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman
- Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ ------ Indira Gandhi
- Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters ------ Mrinal Sen
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter ------ Sivaji Ganeshan
- Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee ------ Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar ------ G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
- Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar ------ Ashapurna Devi, 1976
- Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner ------ Amrita Pritam, 1956
- Woman Honours Graduate ------ Kamini Roy
- Woman Director General of Police ------ Kanchan C Bhattacharya
- Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart ------ Dr. P. Venugopal
- Woman to received Nobal Prize ------ Mother Teresa
- Woman Governor ------ Sarojini Naidu
- Licensed Pilot ------ J R D Tata
- Woman Air Pilot ------ Durba Banerjee
- Woman Teacher ------ Savitribai Phule
- Successful heart transplanted person ------ Devi Ram (1994)
- President of National Human Rights Commission ------ Justice Rangnath Mishra
- Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar ------ Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
- Indian who won the World Billiard award ------ Wilson Jans
- Indian who won the Grammy award ------ Pt. Ravi Shankar
- Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. ------ Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
- Indian member in British House of Commons ------ Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
- First President of Indian Science Congress ------ Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
- Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times ------ Sherpa-Augarita
- Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ ------ Ramvilas Sharma
- Indian Managing Director of World Bank ------ Gautam Kazi
- Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ ------ C. K. Naidu
- Actress to win Padma Shri Award ------ Nargis Dutt, 1958
- Indian players played Davis Cup ------ M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
- Tennis Grandslam title winner ------ Mahesh Bhupati
- Indian player who played the test cricket ------ K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
- Scientist elected for Lok Sabha ------ Dr. Meghnad Saha
- Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award ------ Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
- Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar ------ C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
- Person, who became High Commissioner in Great Britain ------ V. K. Krishna-Menon
- Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize ------ Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
- First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament ------ Lal Mohan Ghose
- Woman Graduates ------ Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
- Woman Chief Justice of High Court ------ Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
- An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period ------ Ram Prasad Ram
- Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council ------ Sir. S. P. Sinha
- Leanin Peace Prize ------ Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Chairman of Finance Commission ------ K. C. Niogi
- Woman Doctorate of Science ------ Asima Chatterjee (1944)
- Woman IPS ------ Kiran Bedi
- Woman Supreme Court judge ------ Kumari Fathima Beevi
- Indian member of American Congress ------ Deleep Singh
- Editor of Time Magazine ------ Bobby Ghosh
- Director of CBI becoming Governor ------ Ashwani Kumar
- Person to reach the North Pole ------ Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
- Person to reach the South Pole ------ Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
- Nishan-e-Pakistan ------ Morarji Desai, 1990
- Magsaysay Award ------ Vinoba Bhave, 1958
- Miss World ------ Reita Faria in 1966
- Miss Asia Pacific ------ Zeenat Aman in 1970
- Miss Universe ------ Sushmita Sen in 1994
- Miss Earth ------ Nicole Faria in 2010
- Place to get electricity ------ Darjeeling in 1897
- Sound film ------ Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
- Colour film ------ Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
- Oscar winner ------ Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
- Dadasaheb Phalke Award ------ Devika Rani in 1969
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters ------ Sivaji Ganesan
- Test-tube baby ------ Durga Agarwal, born 1978
- Newspaper ------ Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760
- First Lady Doctor ------ Anandibai Joshi
- Satellite ------ Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
- Man to climb Mt Everest ------ Tenzing Norgay
- Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen ------ Phu Dorjee, 1984
- Woman to climb Mt everest ------ Bachendri Pal
- District to achieve 100% literacy rate ------ Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
- Captain in Tests ------ C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
- ODI captain ------ Ajit Wadekar
- Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket ------ Harbhajan Singh
- Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket ------ Virendra Sehwag
- First Marshal of Indian Air Force ------ Arjan Singh
- Individual Medal in Olympic games ------ KD Jadhav
- Grandmaster ------ Viswanathan Anad
- Woman Grandmaster ------ Koneru Humpy
- First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games ------ Abhinav Bindra
- First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games ------ Vijendra Kumar
- Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ------ Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Fellow of the Royal Society ------ Ardaseer Cursetjee
- Woman External Affairs Minister ------ Sushma Swaraj
- First Gold Medallist on International Track ------ Hima Das
