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FIRST IN INDIA
Bharat Ratna Award winner : C. Rajagopalachari
Governor- General of Biritsh India : Werren Hastings
Governor-General of Free India (British) : Lord Louis Mountbatten
Governor-General of Free-India (India) : C. Rajagopalachari
Chairman at Rajya sabha : S. V. Krishanamoorthy
Chief Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen
Chief Justice of India : Hiralal J. Kania
Commander-in-Chief : K.M. Cariappa
Cosmonaut : Rakesh Sharma
Cricketer to have batted in all positions(1to11) : Vinoo Mankad
Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhabhai Patel
Home Minister : Vallabhabhai Patel
Elected President : S. Radhakrishnan
President : Rajendra Prasad
Field Marshal : S. H. Manekshaw
Finance Minister of Free India : R. K. Shanmugham Chetty
Lawgiver : Manu, ‘Manu Smriti’
Man to climb Mount Everest : Tenzing Norgay (with Edmund Hillary, 1953)
Man to swim across English Channel : Mihir Sen
Woman to swim across English channel : Arati saha
Man to win individual Olympic Medal : K.D. Jadhav
Managing director of World Bank : Gautam Kaji
Miss Universe : Sushmita sen
Miss World : Reita Faria
Nobel prize winner : Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Pilot : J.R.D. Tata, Tata Airlines
President of Indian National Congress : W.C. Bannerjee (1885)
Woman President of India National Congress : Annie Besant
Indian Woman president of India National : Sarojini Naidu Congress
Vice-President : S. Radhakrishnan
Viceroy of India : Lord Canning
Woman (Muslim) Ruler of India : Razia Sultana
Woman Ambassador : Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Woman Chief Justice (of High Court) : Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh)
Woman Chief Minister : Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh)
Woman Governor : Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh, 1947)
Woman IPS Officer : Kiran Bedi
Woman President of UN General Assembly : Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Woman Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi
Woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri pal
Woman to win individual Olympic Medal : Karnam Malleswari
Woman to go in Space : Dr. Kalpana Chawla