First in India (Males)
List of persons (males) who were the first in India to receive various awards, achievements and handle various office is given below :
| First Governor General of India | William Bentinck (1833-35) |
| First Governor General of Independent India | Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
| First and last Governor General of Free India | C Rajagopalachari (1948-56) |
| First Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| First Prime Minister of India who resigned before the full term | Morarji Desai |
| First person to stay in Rashtrapati Bhawan | Lord Irwin |
| First President of National Congress | Womesh Chandra Bannerjee |
| First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First Indian Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kazi |
| First Governor of Reserve Bank of India | Sir Osborne Smith |
| First Indian to join Indian Civil Service (ICS) | Satyendranath Tagore |
| First Field Marshal of India | Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji (SHFJ) Manekshaw |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General KM Karippa |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral RD Katari |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore (1913) |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Physics | CV Raman |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| First person of Indian origin to win Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargobind Khurana |
| First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| First sportsperson to receive Bharat Ratna | Sachin Tendulkar |
| First person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First cricketer to get Padma Bhushan | CK Nayudu |
| First in India to receive Grammy Award | Pandit Ravishankar |
| First Indian to win Prizetaker Award (Architecture) | Balkrishna Doshi |
| First person to receive Jnanpith Award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| First Indian pilot | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (JRD) Tata (1929) |
| First Indian to win Richard Dawkins Award | Javed Akhtar |
| First Indian to score triple century in Test Cricket | Virender Sehwag |
| First Ex-CJI to be appointed as Governor of a state | P Sathasivam (Governor of Kerala) |
| First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning (1858-62) |
| First Indian to win World Food Prize | MS Swaminathan |
| First speaker of Lok Sabha | GV Mavalankar |
| First Indian member of British House of Commons | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| First Indian to score a Test Century | Lala Amarnath (1933) |
| First Chief Election Commissioner of India | Sukumar Sen |
| First Chairperson of Lokpal of India | Pinaki Chandra Ghose |
| First Chief of Defence Staff of India | General Bipin Rawat |
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