Record Makers (India)
Men
1. First Indian to swim across the English Channel – (Mihir Sen)
2. First to Climb Mount Everest – (Tenzing Norgay)
3. First Indian to Climb Mount Everest without Oxygen – (Phu Dorjee)
4. First Indian to join I.C.S. (ICS now is IAS) – Satyendra Nath Tagore
5. First Indian origin to get Nobel Prize – (Hargobind Khurana)
6. First Indian in Space (first Indian cosmonaut) – (Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma)
7. First British Governor General – (Warren Hastings)
8. First Governor General of Free India – (Lord Mountbatten)
9. First Viceroy of India – (Lord Canning)
10. Last Governor General of free India – (Lard Canning)
11. First President of India – (Dr Rajendra Prasad)
12. First Vice-President of India – (Dr S. Radhakrishnan)
13. First Muslim President of India – (Dr Zakir Hussain)
14. First Sikh President of India – (Giani Zail Singh)
15. First Prime Minister – (Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru)
16. First Speaker of Lok Sabha – (G.V. Mavlankar)
17. First Chief Justice of India – (Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania)
18. First President of Indian National Congress – (W.C. Banerjee)
19. First Indian to become member of Viceroy’s Executive Council – ( S.P. Sinha)
20. First Indian to become President of International Court of Justice – (Dr Nagendra Singh)
21. First emperor of Mughal Dynasty – Babur (1526)
22. First Field Marshal – (S.H.F.J. Manekshaw)
23. First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India (now field Marshal – (Gen K.M. Cariappa)
24. First Chief of the Army Staff (Indian) – (Gen. Maharaja Rajendra Sinhji)
25. First Chief of Naval Staff (Indian) – (Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari)
26. First Chief of the Air Force Staff (Indian) – (Subroto Mukherjee)
27. First Indian in British Parliament – (Dadabhai Naoroji)
28. First Indian recipient of Victoria Cross (highest gallantry award before independence) – (Khudadad Khan)
29. First Indian to circumnavigate the globe – ( Maj K. S. Rao (team skipper of Trishna)
30. First Indian to reach the South Pole – Col J.K. Bajaj (1989)
31. First Indian High Court Judge – Justice Syed Mehmood (1878)
32. First Indian to make a solo air flight – (J.R.D. Tata)
33. First Indian to visit England – Raja Rammohan Roy (1832)
34. First Indian Member of House of Lords (British) – (Lord S.P. Sinha)
35. First Bar-at-Law – (J.M. Tagore)
36. First Chairman of Rajya Sabha – Dr S. Radhakrishnan (1952-62)
37. First Air Marshal – (Arjan Singh)
