First President of India =Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India =Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First Muslim President of India =Dr. Zakir Hussain
First Sikh President of India =Giani Zail Singh
First Prime Minister Pt. =Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Speaker of Lok Sabha =G.V. Mavlankar
First Chief Justice of India Justice =H.L. Kania
First President of Indian National Congress =W.C.Bannerjee
First Indian to become member of Viceroy's Executive Council Lord =S.P. Sinha
First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice =Dr. Nagendra Singh
First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty =Babar
First Field Marshal S.H.F.J. =Manekshaw
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India Gen.=K.M.Cariappa
First Indian to swim across English Channel=Mihir Sen
First to Climb Mount Everest =Tenzing Norgay
First to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen =Phy Dorjee
First Indian to join I.C.S. (I.C.S. now IAS) =Satyendra Nath Tagore
First Indian to get Nobel Prize =Rabindra Nath Tagore
First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut) =Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
First British Governor General =Warren Hastings
First Governor General of Free India =Lord Mountbatten
First and the last Governor General of free India =
C. Rajagopalachari
First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian) =Sinhji
First Chief of the Naval Staff (Indian) =Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
First Chief of the Air Force Staff (India) = Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian in British Parliament =Dada Bhai Nauroji
First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross (highest award before independence) = Khudada Khan
First Indian to circumnavigate the globe Lt.Col=K.S.Rao
First Indian to reach the South Pole Col =J.K. Bajaj
First Indian to make a solo air flight =JRD Tata
First Indian to visit England= Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)
First Indian Member of House of Lords=S.P.Sinha
First Bar-at-Law =J.M. Tagore
First Chairman of RajyaSabha =Dr.S.Radhakrishnan (1952-62)
First Indian Test Cricketer =K.S. Ranjitsingh
First Air Marshall =Arjan Singh
First Judge to face impeachment in the Lock Sabha =Justice V.Ramaswami (1993)
Fastest Shorthand writer =Dr. G.D. Bhist (250 wpm)