List of First in India – Male
» Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India, in office from 26 January 1950 – 13 May 1962.
» Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India, in office from 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964.
» List of Prime Ministers of India
» Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was the first Indian Governor-General of the country (21 June 1948 – 26 January 1950).
» Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first Vice President of India (1952 – 1962).
» Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was the first Deputy Prime Minister and also the first Home Minister of India (15 August 1947 – 15 December 1950).
» Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
» Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa) was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Army.
» Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur (‘Sam the Brave’) was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal of India.
» General Bipin Rawat was the first Chief of Defence Staff.
» Morarji Desai was the first Non-Congress Prime Minister of India.
» Zakir Husain was the first Muslim President of India.
» Morarji Desai was the first Indian Prime Minister to resign from office.
» Zakir Hussain was the first Indian President to die in office.
» Sukumar Sen, an Indian civil servant, was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India. He served from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958.
» Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General in India (of Bengal).
» Lord William Bentinck was the first official Governor-General of British India.
» Lord Mountbatten was the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India.
» Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency.
» Lord Canning (Charles Canning) was the first Viceroy of India.
» Lord Louis Mountbatten was the first Governor-General of independent India (15 August 1947 – 21 June 1948).
» Womesh Chandra Bannerjee was the first president of Indian National Congress.
» James Augustus Hicky, an Irishman, launched the first printed newspaper in India.
» Rabindra Nath Tagore was first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also first Asian to be awarded in 1913.
» C. V. Raman was first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1930).
» Dr. Har Govind Khorana was the first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Medicines (Physiology) in 1968.
» Dr. Amartya Sen is the first Indian recipient of the Nobel prize in Economics (1998).
» Major Somnath Sharma was the first recipient of Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, which he was awarded posthumously.
» C. Rajagopalachari (the last Governor-General of the Dominion of India), Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (second President and the first Vice President of India) and Nobel Laureate and Physicist C. V. Raman were the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954.
» Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first individual to be honoured with Bharat Ratna Award posthumously.
» Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first foreigner to be awarded Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, in 1987.
» Vinayak Narahari ‘Vinoba’ Bhave (Acharya Vinoba Bhave) was the first Indian to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1958.
» G. Sankara Kurup, better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G), was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for ‘Odakkuzhal’ a collection of poems in Malayalam.
» Ruskin Bond was the first Indian author to get Anderson Award.
» Wilson Jones was the first Indian to win World Billiards Trophy.
» Col. Jatinder Kumar (JK) Bajaj, was the first Indian (and the first Asian) to reach the South Pole.
» Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, an Indian wrestler, was the first individual athlete from India to win a medal at the Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
» Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an Individual Olympic Gold Medal. He won the medal at Beijing Olympics in 2008 for the men’s 10-meter air rifle event.
» Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan was the first Formula One driver from India.
» Viswanathan Anand became the first grandmaster from India in 1988.
» Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, was the first captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches.
» Krishnamachari Srikkanth was the first Test captain for the U-19 team in 1978.
» Ravi Shastri was the first One Day International captain for the U-19 team in 1981.
» Sachin Tendulkar was the first player to score 10,000 runs in ODIs.
» Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket.
» Virender Sehwag is the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in test cricket.
» Mihir Sen was the first Indian (and the first Asian) to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958.
» Rakesh Sharma the first Indian to go into space.
» Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian (and the first Asian) to be a Member of Parliament elected to the UK House of Commons.
» Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (J. R. D. Tata) was the first Indian Pilot.
» Devi Ram was the first Heart Transplant patient of India.
» Benegal Narsing Rau (B. N. Rau) was the first Indian to serve as a Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague (1952 – 1953).
» Nagendra Singh was the first Indian to serve as President of the International Court of Justice.
