| First Woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| First Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
| First Indian Governor-General of Independent India | Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
| First Speaker of Lok sabha | Shri G.V. Mavalankar |
| First Prime-Minister of India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Finance Minister of India | R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
| First Governor of RBI | Osborne Smith |
| First Non-Congress Prime-Minister | Morarji Desai |
| First Space Traveller | S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma |
| First satellite of india | Aryabhatta |
| First person to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V Raman |
| First Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavlankar |
| First Defence Minister of India | Baldev Singh Chokkar |
| First Param Vir Chakra Winner | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First person to get Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| First Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| First woman judge in Supreme Court | Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First Judge in International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagender Singh |
| First Test tube baby of India | Indira |
| First and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| First Indian to join the Indian Civil Service | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| First person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| First Indian to cross English channel | Mihir Sen |
| First woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| First woman I.P.S. Officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| First woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| First lady to become “Miss World” | Rita Faria |
| First Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| First Education Minister | Abul Kalam Azad |
| First Woman Teacher in India | Savitribai Phule |
