First in India is a static General Knowledge 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 in the books of history of India. The below article covers the information on the list of achievements in different fields like science & technology, governance, defence, sports, and architecture etc. Aspirants who are preparing competitive exams like UPSC,SSC,RRB,IB,APPSC/TSPSC must learn static general knowledge.
| 1. | First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 2. | First Prime Minister of India | Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 3. | First Vice-President of India | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 4. | First President of Indian National Congress | Womesh Chandra Banerjee |
| 5. | The First Muslim President Of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tyabji |
| 6. | The First Muslim President Of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 7. | The First Speaker Of The Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| 8. | The first Education Minister | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 9. | The first Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabbhai Patel |
| 10. | First Finance Minister | Shanmukham Chetty |
| 11. | First Defence Minister | Baldev Singh |
| 12. | First Law Minister | Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar |
| 13. | First Chief Election Commissioner of India | Sukumar Sen |
| 14. | First Governor of Bengal | Robert Clive |
| 15. | First Governr General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
| 16. | First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| 17. | First Governor-General of India | Lord William Bentinck |
| 18. | The First Governor General Of Free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| 19. | The First And The Last Indian To Be Governor General Of Free India | C. Rajagopalachari |
| 20. | First Chief Justice of India | H.J Kania |
| 21. | First Chairperson of Lokpal of India | Pinaki Chandra Ghose |
| 22. | The First Prime Minister In India Who Resigned Without Completing The Full Term | Morarji Desai |
| 23. | The First President Of India Who Died While In Office | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 24. | The First Prime Minister Of India Who Did Not Face The Parliament | Charan Singh |
| 25. | The First Indian To Win Nobel Price | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 26. | The First Indian To Get Nobel Price In Physics | C. V. Raman |
| 27. | The First Indian To Recieve Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| 28. | The First Man Who Introduced Printing Press In Free India | James Hicky |
| 29. | The First Indian To Join Indian Civil Service | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 30. | India’s First Man In Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| 31. | The First Indian Commander-in-Chief Of India | General Cariappa |
| 32. | The First Chief Of The Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| 33. | The first Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukherjee |
| 34. | The first Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R. D. Katari |
| 35. | The First Indian Member Of The Viceroy’s Executive Council | S. P. Sinha |
| 36. | The First Field Marshal Of India | S. H. F. Manekshaw |
| 37. | The First Indian To Cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| 38. | The First Indian To Receive Jnanpith Award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| 39. | The first judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| 40. | The first person to receive Paramveer Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| 41. | The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Phu Dorjee |
| 42. | The first person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| 43. | The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| 44. | The first person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| 45. | The first person to resign from the central cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| 46. | The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Ghaftar Khan |
| 47. | The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| 48. | The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
| 49. | First Temporary President Of Constituent Assembly | Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha |
| 50. | The First Indian Pilot | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD Tata) |
| 51. | First Chairman Of Prasad Bharti | Nikhil Chakravorty |
| 52. | India’s first Female Train Driver | Surekha Yadav |
| 53. | India’s first Female Tabla Maestro | Dr. Aban E. Mistry |
| 54. | India’s first Female recognized as Billionth Citizen | Astha Arora |
| 55. | India’s first Female to fly an Aircraft | Sarla Thakral |
| 56. | First Female Secretary General of Rajya Sabha in India | V. S. Ramadevi |
| 57. | India’s first Female to hold a Union Cabinet Post in Pre-Independent India. | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| 58. | First Indian Woman to get Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| 59. | First Indian Female to swim across English Channel | Arati Saha |
| 60. | First Indian Woman to complete her MBBS | Kadambini Ganguly |
| 61. | First Indian Woman Chief Engineer | P. K. Tresia Nanguli |
| 62. | First Indian Woman to reach Antarctica | Meher Moos in 1976 |
| 63. | First Indian Woman Foreign Secretary | Nirupama Menon Rao |
| 64. | India’s first Woman Commercial Pilot | Prem Mathur of Deccan Airways |
| 65. | India’s first Woman Sahitya Award Winner | Amrita Pritam |
| 66. | India’s first Woman to be elected as the General President of the Indian Science Congress | Dr. Asima Chatterjee |
| 67. | India’s first Woman to win WTA Tennis Tournament | Sania Mirza |
| 68. | First Indian Woman as Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court | Sujata Manohar |
| 69. | First Indian Woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapoorna Devi |
| 70. | First Indian Woman Barrister/ Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabji |
| 71. | First Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peaks | Premlata Agarwal |
| 72. | First Indian woman amputee to scale Everest | Arunima Sinha |
| 73. | First Indian Woman Chairman of Indian Banks Association | Usha Ananthasubramanian |
| 74. | First Woman Chairperson of National Woman Commission | Mrs. Jayanti Patnaik |
| 75. | First Indian Woman to receive Asiad Gold Medal | Kamaljeet Sandhu |
| 76. | First Indian Woman Speaker of State Assembly of India | Shanno Devi |
| 77. | First Actress in the Indian Cinema | Devika Rani |
| 78. | First Indian Woman Headmistress in school | Savitribai Phule |
| 79. | First Indian Woman Doordarshan News Reader | Pratima Puri |
| 80. | First Indian Woman to reach in Olympic Games | Sini Abraham |
| 81. | First Indian Woman to receive Norman Borlaug Award | Dr. Amrita Patel |
| 82. | India’s first woman IAS officer after Independence | Anna Rajam Malhotra |
| 83. | India’s first Woman President of Student’s Union | Anju Sachdeva of Delhi University |
| 84. | India’s first Woman Chairperson of Rajya Sabha | Violet Hari Alva |
| 85. | The First lady to become Miss World | Reita Faria |
| 86. | First Woman Judge in Supreme Court | Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| 87. | The First Woman Ambassador | Ms C B Muthamma |
| 88. | The First Woman Governor Of a State In free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| 89. | The First Woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| 90. | The First Woman to climb Mt. Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| 91. | The First Woman to climb Mt. Everest Twice | Santosh Yadav |
| 92. | The First Woman President of the Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| 93. | The First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| 94. | The First Woman Pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| 95. | Who was the First woman commercial Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| 96. | The First Woman president of the United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| 97. | Who was the First Woman President | Pratibha Devisingh Patil |
| 98. | Who was the First (female) train driver | Surekha Yadav |
| 99. | The First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian state | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani |
| 100. | The First Woman Chairman of union Public service commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| 101. | The First Woman Director General of Police (D.G.P.) | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| 102. | The First Lieutnant General | Puneeta Arora |
| 103. | First Woman Air Vice Marshal | P Bandhopadhyaya |
| 104. | First Woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| 105. | First Woman I.P.S. Officer | Mrs Kiran Bedi |
| 106. | The First & last Muslim ruler of Delhi | Razia Sultan |
| 107. | The First Woman to Recieve Ashoka Chakra | Neerja Bhanot |
| 108. | The First Woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| 109. | The First Woman to Recieve Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| 110. | The First Woman to Recieve Bharat Ratna | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| 111. | The First Woman to Recieve Jnanpith Award | Asha Purna Devi |
| 112. | Delhi’s First Mayor | Aruna Asaf Ali |
| 113. | Delhi’s First Woman Chief Secretary | Shailja Chandra |
| 114. | Fastest Asian to swim across the English Channel | Anita Sood |
| 115. | First all-women crew to fly an air Force Chetak Helicopter | Flight Cadets Cheryl Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF |
| 116. | First Indian woman magistrate appointed in United Kingdom | Kantha Talwar |
| 117. | First India woman mayor in United Kingdom | Lata Patel |
| 118. | First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress | Sarojini Naidu |
| 119. | First Indian woman producer and director | Fatima Begum |
| 120. | First Indian woman to become Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen |
| 121. | First Indian Woman to go in space | Kalpana Chawla |
| 122. | First woman to head any Wakf Board in India | Bader Sayeed |
| 123. | First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event | P.T.Usha |
| 124. | First Indian woman boxer to win an international event | M.C.Merykom |
| 125. | First Miss Universe of the new millennium | Lara Dutta |
| 126. | First woman Central Minister | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 127. | First woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha | Nargis Dutt |
| 128. | First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu | Justice M. Fatima Beevi |
| 129. | First woman judicial officer | Anna Chandy |
| 130. | First woman Minister of an Indian state | Vijay Lakshmi Pandit |
| 131. | First woman Speaker of an Indian state | Shano Devi |
| 132. | Grandma Madonna from India | Asha Bhonsle |
| 133. | India’s first Test-Tube Baby | Kruti Parekh |
| 134. | First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha | Meira Kumar (2009) |
| 135. | First Indian Woman Ambassador at UN | Vijalakshmi Pandit |
| 136. | First Indian Woman Airline Pilot | Durga Banerjee |
| 137. | First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games | Kamaljeet Sandhu |
| 138. | First Indian Woman to Booker Prize | Arundhati Roy |
| 139. | First Woman Musician to get Bharat Ratna | MS Subbalakshmi |
| 140. | First batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 141. | First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| 142. | First batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut | Mohd. Azharuddin |
| 143. | First British to Visit India | Thomas Roe |
| 144. | First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India | Fa-Hien/Faxian |
| 145. | First Indian to reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan |
| 146. | First Wax statue of a Living Indian | Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud’s in 1939 |
| 147. | India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes | P.V.Narasimha Rao |
| 148. | India’s First Open University | Dr B.R Ambedkar Open University |
| 149. | India’s First University | Nalanda University |
| 150. | The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| 151. | The first woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu |
| 152. | The first woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| 153. | The first woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| 154. | The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| 155. | First temple constructed from a single rock | Kailasa temple at Ellora |
| 156. | First church in India | St. Thomas Church, Palayoor |
| 157. | First mosque in India | Cheraman Juma Mosque in Methala |
| 158. | First dam in India | Kallanai Dam |
| 159. | First Indian temple with many interconnected structures | Brihadeeswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu |
| 160. | First Olympics Team Medal | Gold in Field Hockey (1928, Summer Olympics) |
| 161. | First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal | Navjot Kaur |
| 162. | First Indian woman badminton player to win an Asian Games medal | Saina Nehwal |
| 163. | First Indian woman to win a medal at Asian Games | Santhi Soundarajan |
| 164. | First person to win the international bronze medal in skiing | Aanchal Thakur |
| 165. | First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal | P. V. Sindhu in Badminton |
| 166. | First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics | Nora Polley, 1924 Summer Olympics |
| 167. | First Individual Gold Medal won by | Abhinav Bindra, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing |
| 168. | First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling | Sakshi Malik won Bronze in the 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 169. | First Defence Minister of India | Baldev Singh Chokkar |
| 170. | First Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force | Subroto Mukherjee |
| 171. | First female Jawan in the Army | Shanti Tigga |
| 172. | First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot | IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi |
| 173. | First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize | Divya Ajith Kumar |
| 174. | First hydroelectric plant | Sidrapong (Darjeeling) |
| 175. | First Nuclear Reactor | Apsara (Maharashtra) |
| 176. | First satellite | Aryabhatta |
| 177. | First successfully indigenous launch vehicle | SLV-3 |
| 178. | First genetically modified food product in India | Bt. Eggplant Hybrid [Banned] |
| 179. | First to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) | Surjo Kumar Chakroborty |
| 180. | First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organization (WHO) | Dr. Soumya Swaminathan |
| 181. | First satellite earth station for domestic communications | Secunderabad |
| 182. | The First Indian leader who visited England | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| 183. | The first Indian who was appointed as member of the British House of Lords | Satyendra Prasanno Sinha |
| 184. | First Post Office Opened in India | Kolkata (1727) |
| 185. | First Test tube baby of India | Indira (Baby Harsha) |
| 186. | First British to Visit India | Hawkins |
| 187. | The First train on the Indian sub-continent ran | Mumbai to Thane (1853) |
| 188. | First Telegraph line in India | Calcutta and Diamond Harbour (1851) |
| 189. | First Bank in India | Bank of Hindustan (1770) |
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