First Man in Space - Rakesh Sharma

First graduate in medicine - Surjo Kumar Chakroborty

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C V Raman

First president of India - Dr Rajendra Prasad

First vice-president of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

(FIRST CHAIRMEN OF THE RAJYA SABHA)

First president of Indian National Congress - Womesh Chandra Banerjee (Bombay,1885)

First Prime Minister of India - Jawaharlal Nehru

First Chief Election Commissioner of India - Sukumar Sen

First Chief Justice of India - H.J Kania

First Speaker of Lok Sabha - G. V. Mavlankar

First Home Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhai Patel

First Chairperson of Lokpal of India - Pinaki Chandra Ghose

• First Defence Minister of India - Baldev Singh Chokkar

• First Commander-in-Chief of Free India - K M Cariappa

• First Field Marshal - Sam Manekshaw

• First Param Vir Chakra winner - Major Som Nath Sharma

• First Individual Gold Medal Summer Olympics - Abhinav Bindra

• First Individual Medal in Olympic games - KD Jadhav

• First Indian to reach Antarctica - Ram Charan

• First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress - BadruddinTayyabji

• First Permanent Judge in International Court of Justice - Sir BenegalNarsingh Rau

•Maharaja Sri Nagendra Singh - Indian lawyer who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1985 to 1988

•Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji, was independent India’s first Indian Governor General

• The first Education Minister - Abul Kalam Azad

• The first Indian Naval Chief - Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

• The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen

• The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services - Satyendra Nath Tagore

• The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore

• The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain

• The first Indian to receive Ramon Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave

• The first person to receive Stalin Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlu

• The first President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain

• The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh

• The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai

• The first non-Congress Prime Minister of India - Morarji Desai

• The first prime minister to get Nishan-e-Pakistan - Morarji Desai, 1990

• First Chief of Defence Staff (India) of India : Bipin Rawat

• First Chief of Air Staff : Subroto Mukerjee

• First Chief of Army Staff - Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

• First Person to reach the South Pole - Colonel Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

• First Person to win Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray

• First Indian filmmaker to get Bharat Ratna - Satyajit Ray

• First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Vallabhbhai Patel

• First Minister of Law and Justice – B R Ambedkar

• First Finance Minister of Independent India: R K Shanmukham Chetty

• First Chess Grandmaster - Viswanathan Anand, 1988

• First Grand Slam title - Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the mixed doubles category of the 1997 French Open

• The first Indian to cross English Channel - Mihir Sen

•Colonel Ranveer Jamwal - first Indian to summit the seven highest mountains in the world

• The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen - Sherpa Phu Dorjee

• First Indian to complete volcanic Seven Summit - Satyarup Siddhanta

• First Attorney General of India – M C Setalvad

• First Solicitor General of India – C K Daphtary

• First Comptroller and Auditor General of India – V NARAHARI RAO

• First Sports Person to get Bharat Ratna - Sachin Tendulkar

• First Sikh President of India - Gyani Zail Singh

• First Sikh PM of India – Man Mohan Singh

•Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win OSCAR Award in 1983, for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi

• First President of Indian Science Congress - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee

•Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was the Founder Director (and later first Director General) of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), He was the first Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC)

•Dadabhai Naoroji - First Indian Member of British Parliament

• First Indian to win the Grammy award - Pt. Ravi Shankar

• Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first person to deliver a speech in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly

• First President of National Human Rights Commission - Justice RanganathMisra

•Brajesh Mishra was appointed the first National Security Advisor of India

• First chief economic advisor of India - JJ Anjaria

• First Indian Managing Director of World Bank - Gautam Kazi

• Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta – First Chairman of the National Green Tribunal

• First Chairman of ISRO – Vikram Sarabhai

• First Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of IndiA - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

• First Scientist elected for Lok Sabha - Dr. Meghnad Saha

• First Chairman of Finance Commission - K. C. Niogi

• First Captain in Tests - C. K. Nayudu (in 1932)

• First ODI captain - Ajit Wadekar