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India's First-India GK - First in India
Dear friends, here is a long and complete
list of First in India to remember for competitive exams. The list contains
achievements which were achieved by extra-ordinary peoples in India in
different categories -
General Knowledge India
1.
Governor-General of
Independent India ------ Lord Lewis Mountbatten
2.
Indian
Governor-General of Independent India ------ Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
3.
Indian
Commander-in-Chief of Free India ------ General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa,
1949
4.
Field Marshall ------
General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
5.
Speaker of loksabha
------ Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
6.
President ------ Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
7.
Vice-President ------
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
8.
Prime-Minister ------
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
9.
Home Minister ------
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
10.
Finance Minister of
India ------ R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
11.
Auditor General of
India ------ V. Narahari Rao
12.
Director of CBI
------ DP Kohli
13.
National Security
Adviser ------ Brijesh Mishra
14.
Governor of RBI
------ Sir Osborne Smith
15.
Non-Congress
Prime-Minister ------ Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
16.
British
Governor-General of Bengal ------ Warren-Hastings
17.
Space traveler ------
S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
18.
C. S. ------ Satendra
Nath Tagore
19.
Woman IAS ------ Anna
Ranjan George, 1950
20.
Sportsperson to
received Bharat Ratna ------ Sachin Tendulkar
21.
Swimmer who crossed
over the English channel by swimming ------ Mihir Sen
22.
Woman to swim across
the English Channel ------ Arati Saha, 1959
23.
Raman-Magsaysay
awardee ------ Acharya Vinoba Bhave
24.
Nobel prize winner
------ Rabindra Nath Tagore
25.
Nobel Prize in
Physics ------ C. V. Raman in 1930
26.
President of National
Congress ------ Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
27.
Chairman of Lok Sabha
------ G. B. Mavlankar
28.
First Woman Chief
Minister ------ Sucheta Kriplani
29.
Woman Speaker of Lok
Sabha ------ Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
30.
Chief Election
Commissioner ------ Sukumar Sen
31.
Indian Chairman in
International Court ------ Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
32.
Foreigner awardee of
Bharat Ratna ------ Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
33.
Leader of the Indian
Antarctica Mission ------ Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
34.
Chief Justice of
Supreme Court ------ Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
35.
Awarded with ‘Bharat
Ratnas’ ------ Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C.
B. Raman
36.
Woman Awarded with
‘Bharat Ratna’ ------ Indira Gandhi
37.
Commandeer of the
Order of Arts and Letters ------ Mrinal Sen
38.
Chevalier of the
Order of Arts and Letter ------ Sivaji Ganeshan
39.
Posthumally Bharat
Ratna Awardee ------ Lal Bahadur Shastri
40.
Person awarded
Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar ------ G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
41.
Woman awarded with
Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar ------ Ashapurna Devi, 1976
42.
Woman Sahitya Akademi
Award Winner ------ Amrita Pritam, 1956
43.
Woman Honours
Graduate ------ Kamini Roy
44.
Woman Director
General of Police ------ Kanchan C Bhattacharya
45.
Successful Surgeon
who transplanted heart ------ Dr. P. Venugopal
46.
Woman to received
Nobal Prize ------ Mother Teresa
47.
Woman Governor ------
Sarojini Naidu
48.
Licensed Pilot ------
J R D Tata
49.
Woman Air Pilot
------ Durba Banerjee
50.
Woman Teacher ------
Savitribai Phule
51.
Successful heart
transplanted person ------ Devi Ram (1994)
52.
President of National
Human Rights Commission ------ Justice Rangnath Mishra
53.
Hindi Literature
person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar ------ Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
54.
Indian who won the
World Billiard award ------ Wilson Jans
55.
Indian who won the
Grammy award ------ Pt. Ravi Shankar
56.
Person delivered the
Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. ------ Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)
57.
Indian member in
British House of Commons ------ Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
58.
First President of
Indian Science Congress ------ Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
59.
Mountaineer who
scaled Mount Everest 8 times ------ Sherpa-Augarita
60.
Writer who was
awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ ------ Ramvilas Sharma
61.
Indian Managing
Director of World Bank ------ Gautam Kazi
62.
Player awarded ‘Padam
Bhusan’ ------ C. K. Naidu
63.
Actress to win Padma
Shri Award ------ Nargis Dutt, 1958
64.
Indian players played
Davis Cup ------ M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S.
Dare (Doubles) (1921)
65.
Tennis Grandslam
title winner ------ Mahesh Bhupati
66.
Indian player who
played the test cricket ------ K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
67.
Scientist elected for
Lok Sabha ------ Dr. Meghnad Saha
68.
Scientist awarded
Ghanshyam Das Birla award ------ Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
69.
Literature who was
awarded Murti Devi Purskar ------ C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
70.
Person, who became
High Commissioner in Great Britain ------ V. K. Krishna-Menon
71.
Indian who was
awarded the Lenin Peace Prize ------ Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
72.
First Indian who
contested the election for British Parliament ------ Lal Mohan Ghose
73.
Woman Graduates
------ Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
74.
Woman Chief Justice
of High Court ------ Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
75.
An Indian, appointed
the judge of High Court, during the British period ------ Ram Prasad Ram
76.
Indian member of
Viceroy Executive Council ------ Sir. S. P. Sinha
77.
Leanin Peace Prize
------ Saifuddin Kitchlew
78.
Chairman of Finance
Commission ------ K. C. Niogi
79.
Woman Doctorate of
Science ------ Asima Chatterjee (1944)
80.
Woman IPS ------
Kiran Bedi
81.
Woman Supreme Court
judge ------ Kumari Fathima Beevi
82.
Indian member of
American Congress ------ Deleep Singh
83.
Editor of Time
Magazine ------ Bobby Ghosh
84.
Director of CBI
becoming Governor ------ Ashwani Kumar
85.
Person to reach the
North Pole ------ Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
86.
Person to reach the
South Pole ------ Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
87.
Nishan-e-Pakistan
------ Morarji Desai, 1990
88.
Magsaysay Award
------ Vinoba Bhave, 1958
89.
Miss World ------
Reita Faria in 1966
90.
Miss Asia Pacific
------ Zeenat Aman in 1970
91.
Miss Universe ------
Sushmita Sen in 1994
92.
Miss Earth ------
Nicole Faria in 2010
93.
Place to get
electricity ------ Darjeeling in 1897
94.
Sound film ------
Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
95.
Color film ------
Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
96.
Oscar winner ------
Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
97.
Dadasaheb Phalke
Award ------ Devika Rani in 1969
98.
Chevalier of the
Order of Arts and Letters ------ Sivaji Ganesan
99.
Test-tube baby ------
Durga Agarwal, born 1978
100.
Newspaper ------
Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760
101.
First Lady Doctor
------ Anandibai Joshi
102.
Satellite ------
Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
103.
Man to climb Mt
Everest ------ Tenzing Norgay
104.
Man to climb Mt
Everest without oxygen ------ Phu Dorjee, 1984
105.
Woman to climb Mt
everest ------ Bachendri Pal
106.
District to achieve
100% literacy rate ------ Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
107.
Captain in Tests
------ C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
108.
ODI captain ------
Ajit Wadekar
109.
Bowler who made
hat-trick in Test Cricket ------ Harbhajan Singh
110.
Batsman who made 300
runs in test Cricket ------ Virendra Sehwag
111.
First Marshal of
Indian Air Force ------ Arjan Singh
112.
Individual Medal in
Olympic games ------ KD Jadhav
113.
Grandmaster ------
Viswanathan Anad
114.
Woman Grandmaster
------ Koneru Humpy
115.
First Indian who
individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games ------ Abhinav Bindra
116.
First Indian who won
the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games ------ Vijendra Kumar
117.
Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge ------ Srinivasa Ramanujan
118.
Fellow of the Royal
Society ------ Ardaseer Cursetjee
119.
Woman External
Affairs Minister ------ Sushma Swaraj
120.
First Gold Medalist
on International Track ------ Hima Das
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