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First in India (Males)

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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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