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FIRST IN INDIA ● British Governor-General : Warren Hastings ● British Governor-General of Independent India : Lord Mountbatten ● Justice of India : Hiralal J. Kania ● Comander-in-Chief of Free India : General K. M. Cariappa ● Chief of Air Staff : Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst ● Indian Air Chief : Air Marshal S. Mukherjee ● Chief of Army Staff : General M. Rajendra Singh ● Chief of Naval Staff : Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari ● Consmonaut : Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma ● Emperor of Mughal Dynasty in India : Babar ● Field Marshal : SPFJ Manekshaw ● Governor-General of Indian Union : C. Rajgopalachari ● Indian to get an Oscar : Bhanu Athaiya ● Indian to Reach the South Pole : Col. I. K. Bajaj ● Indian ICS Officer : Satyendra Nath Tagore ● Indian Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council : Sir S. P. Sinha ● Indian Man to Swim Across the English Channel : Mihir Sen ● Indian Woman to Swim Across the English Channel : Miss Aarti Saha ● Indian Woman to Swim Across the Strait of Gibraltar : Aarti Pradhan ● Man to Climb Mount Everest : Sherpa Tenzing ● Man to Climb Mount Everest without Oxygen : Phu Dorjee ● Man to Climb Mount Everest twice : Nawang Gombu ● Muslim Woman to sit on the throne of Delhi : Razia Sultana ● Nobel Prize Winner : Rabindra Nath Tagore ● President of the Indian National Congress : W. C. Banerjee ● Woman President of the Indian National Congress : Annie Besant ● President to Die in Office : Dr. Zakir Hussain ● Prime Minister to Lose an Election : Indira Gandhi ● Prime Minister to Resign from Office : Morarji Desai ● Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel ● Talkie Film : Alam Ara (1931) ● Test-tube Baby : Indira (Baby Harsha) ● Viceroy : Lord Canning ● Woman Central Minister : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur ● Woman Chief Minister of a State : Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani ● Woman Governor : Mrs. Sarojini Naidu ● Woman Minister : Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit ● Woman to Climb the Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal ● Woman Prime Minister : Mrs. Indira Gandhi ● Woman Speaker of a State Assembly : Mrs. Shanno Devi ● Woman Airline Pilot : Durba Banerjee ● Woman to Win an Asiad Gold : Kamaljit Sandhu ● Woman Judge of the Supreme Court : Fathima Beevi ● Woman IPS Officer : Kiran Bedi ● Indian in the British Parliament: Dadabhai Naoroji ● Indian to win Miss Universe Title : Ms Sushmita Sen ● Indian Woman Congress President : Sarojini Naidu (1925) ● Woman President of UN General Assembly : Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953) ● Woman to Win the Nobel Prize : Mother Teresa (1979) ● Woman to become ‘Miss World : Reeta Faria ● Speaker, Lok Sabha : G. V. Manavalankar (1952-57) ● Chairman Rajya Sabha : S. V. Krishnamoorthy (1952) ● Indian to Pass ICS : Surendra Nath Banerji (1869) ● Indian Pilot : JRD Tata (1929) ● To Reach Antarctica : Lt. Ram Charan (1960) ● Vernacular Daily : Kolkata (1727) ● Telegraph Line Installed : Calcutta to Diamond Harber (1853) ● Silent Movie : Raja Harish Chandra by Dada Saheb Phalke (1913) ● Coloured Cinemascope Film : Pyar ki Pyas (1961) ● Satellite launched : Aryabhatta (1975) ● Indigenously built satellite : Aryabhatta (1975) ● Atomic device exploded at : Pokharan in Rajasthan (1974) ● Large-scale Nuclear Reactor : Apsara (1956) ● Indigenously designed and built missile : Prithvi (1988) ● Member of the Dalit Community to become the President of India : K. R. Narayanan ● DNA typing forensic Laboratory set-up at : Kolkata ● Electric Train started between : Ludhiana and New Delhi ● Science City was inaugurated in : Kolkata ● Actress of Indian Cinema : Kamalabai Gokhale ● Woman Pilot of IAF : Harita Deol ● Solar Thermal Parabolic Trough Power Station was established at : Mathania (Rajasthan) ● Indian writer to win the Booker Prize : Arundhati Roy ● Musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna : M. S. Subbulakshmi ● Indian Woman to go into Space : Kalpana Chawla ● Chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board : Nikhil Chakravarthy ● Indian Institution to be awarded Gandhi Peace Prize : Ramakrishna Mission ● Solar city is developed at : Anandpur Sahib ● Woman to win an Olympic medal : Karnam Malleswari ● Woman Foreign Secretary of India : Chokila Iyer ● Indian to win World Billiards Trophy : Wilson Jones ● Indian Grand Master (in Chess) : Vishwanathan Anand ● Chinese pilgrim to visit India : Fahien ● European invader on India soil : Alexender, the great ● Indian to win World Chess Championship : Vishwanathan Anand ● Women Air Vice Marshal : P. Bandopadhyaya ● Lady Cadet of Indian Army : Priya Jhingan ● First Indian to win a medal in the world Athletic Championship : Anju B. George (2003) ● Triple Century Maker in Test Cricket : Virendra Sahwag (2004) ● Hitter of 5 Double Centuries : Rahul Dravid (2004) ● Woman DGP : Kanchan Chaudhury ● Medal winner in Olympic Games : Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore (2004) ● Asian Tennis Champion, WTA champion, Third round winner in Grand Slam Tournament, Grand slam tournament winner Match winner in U.S. open, Youngest awardee of Padamshree : Sania Mirza ● Formula-1 Car Racer : Narayan Kartikeyan ● Indian to be awarded ‘Srilanka Ratn’ : N. Ram ● Woman Commanded the annual passing out parade : Wahida Prizm (2006) ● Five hundred wicket taker in Test cricket: Anil Kumble (2006) ● To the ski to the North Pole : Ajeet Bajaj (2006) ● First Air Chief to to Sky dive : Air Chief S. P. Tyagi (2006) ● First Indian Woman to win a Badminton Grand Prix : Saina Nehwal (2006) ● First President to make sortie in a combat aircraft : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2006) ● First Women President : Pratibha Patil (2007) ● First Indian to win Gold Medal in Olympics in individual Event : Abhinav Bindra (2008) ● First Woman Pilot of Fighter Plane : Suman Sharma ● World Cup (Jr.) Badminton, Indonesian Open Winner (Woman) : Saina Nehwal (2009) ● Woman Speaker Lok Sabha : Ms. Meira Kumar (2009) ● Two Oscar Award Winner : A. R. Rehman (2009) ● Khel Ratna, Arjun and Dronacharya Award : P. Gopi Chand (2009) ● Indian Woman to reach the South Pole : Reena Kaushal (2009) Earliest school of medicine known to humans: Ayurveda ● First Air Force in Asia to fly jets: Indian Air Force (1948) ● First Book in any Indian Language: It was printed in 1578 in Tamil. ● First Census in India: 1901 ● First Cinema House in India: It was built by J.F.Madan in 1907 in Calcutta. ● First complete Technicolor film: Jhansi Ki Rani (1953) ● First Constitutional Amendment: 1950 ● First country-wide agricultural census: 1970-71 ● First English Newspaper in India: Bengal Gazette printed in 1790 by James Augustus in Calcutta. ● First Film Centre: Nandan. Located in Calcutta, it was inaugurated in September 1985. ● First Film with an all-female cast: Marathi Film Bindhast, directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni. ● First Five-Year Plan: Started in 1951 ● First General Elections: They were held in 1952. ● First hydroelectric project in India: Shivasamudram, across the River Kaveri in 1902 ● First Indian state to set up a women’s court: Andhra Pradesh ● First international co-production: Nala Damayanti (1921) made in collaboration with Italy. ● First Marine National Park: Jamnagar ● First Moonlit Animal House in Asia: Located in the Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. ● First Navodaya School: Navegaon-Khairi in Nagpur ● First Postage Stamp: It was issued in India in 1852 at Karachi. ● First Printing Press: It was set up in Goa in 1556 by the Portuguese. ● First Railway Line: It was opened on April 16, 1853 between Bombay and Thane. ● First Rupee in India: It was minted during the reign of Sher Shah Suri in 1542. ● First ship built in India: Jala Usha built by Vishakapatnam Shipyard was commissioned in 1948. ● First silent feature film in India: Pundalik made in 1912 by N.G. Chitre and R.G. Torney. It was half British in its make. ● First solar crematorium: It is proposed to be set up in Valsad, Gujarat. ● First Solar Energy Centre: Gwalpahar, Gurgaon, Haryana ● First song-less film: JBH Wadia's Naujawan (1937). ● First south Indian film to be released in Korea: Tamil Film Muthu Maharaja (June, 2000) ● First Talkie Film: Alam Ara (1931) ● First Telefilm: Satyajit Ray's Sadgati (telecast on Doordarshan in April 1981) ● First Telegraph Line: It was laid between Calcutta and Agra in 1854. This line was 1280 km long. It was extended up to Lahore in 1857. ● First Telephone system: It was started in 1881 from Calcutta. ● First Television Reception Centre: Arvi, located in Maharashtra ● First veterinary college: Opened in Parel in Bombay in 1885. It is still in existence and is the oldest veterinary college in Asia. ● First Wind farm: Mandvi, Kutch in Gujarat ● Highest Airfield in the world: Thoise, Ladakh ● Highest road in India: Khardung La Pass ● India’s first Antartica expedition: January 11, 1982 ● India’s first Satellite: Aryabhatta, April 19, 1975 ● India's first colour film: Prabhat's Sairandhri, which was processed and printed in Germany in 1933. ● India's first fully indigenous silent feature film: Raja Harishchandra produced by Dada Saheb Phalke on May 3, 1913. ● India's first indigenously built missile destroyer: INS 'Delhi' (commissioned on November 15, 1997 at Mumbai). ● India's first indigenously built submarine: INS 'Shakti' (commissioned on February 7, 1992) ● India's first indigenously made colour film: Ardashir Irani’s Kisan Kanya made in 1937. ● India's first manufacturer of light bulbs and electrical equipment: Bengal Lamps, Calcutta (1933) ● India's First Oil well: Digboi (1890) ● India's first radio programme: This was broadcast privately with a 40w transmitter by the Madras Presidency Club Radio in 1924. ● India's largest inland lake: Lake Chilika, Orissa ● Largest circulated multi-edition daily in India: Roudramukhi Swar in Hindi (12,92,277 copies in 1997). ● Largest circulated periodical in India: Malayala Manorama (11,27,414 copies) ● Largest circulated single edition newspaper in India: Hindustan Times from Delhi (5,40,919 copies in 1997). ● Largest Nandi in India: Nandi of the Leepakshi Temple at Andhra Pradesh ● Largest Stupa in India: Mahachaitya Stupa, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh ● Oldest era in the world: Hindu Era ● Oldest para-military force in India: Assam Rifles (1835) in Shillong ● Only Place in the world where a Brahmat Temple is found: Pushkar in Rajasthan ● Shortest era in the world: Christian Era ● State with the highest % of Scheduled Castes to total population: Punjab (28.31% - 1991 Census) ● State with the highest% of Scheduled tribes to total population: Mizoram (94.75%) ● State with the largest number of Scheduled Castes: Uttar Pradesh (29.276 million - 1991 Census) ● State with the largest number of Scheduled Tribes: Madhya Pradesh (15.399 million - 1991 Census) ● State with the largest number of towns: Uttar Pradesh (704) ● State with the largest number of villages: Uttar Pradesh (1,12,803 - 1991 Census) ● State with the least number of towns: Nagaland (7) ● State with the lowest % of Scheduled tribes to total population: Uttar Pradesh (0.21%) ● State with the lowest number of Scheduled Castes: Mizoram (1000 - 1991 Census) ● State with the lowest number of Scheduled Tribes: Sikkim (91,000) ● State with the lowest number of villages: Goa (360 - 1991 Census) ● World's First University: Taxila (700 B.C.) ● World's highest STD/PCO facilities: Siachen glacier (established in November 1997) ● World's largest school: The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes City Montessori School in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, as the world's largest school with 23,000 students on its rolls. ● Youngest para-military force in India: Coast Guard (1978) First Woman President of India : Pratibha Patil ● Delhi’s First Mayor: Aruna Asaf Ali (1958) ● Delhi's First woman chief secretary: Shailja Chandra ● Fastest Asian to swim across the English Channel: Anita Sood ● First all-women crew to fly an air Force Chetak Helicopter: Flight Cadets Cheryl Dutta and Simran Sodhi of IAF (December, 1995). ● First Asian woman magistrate appointed in United Kingdom: Kantha Talwar ● First Asian woman mayor in United Kingdom: Lata Patel ● First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress: Sarojini Naidu (1925) ● First Indian woman producer and director: Fatima Begum, who produced and directed Bulbul-e-Parastan in 1926. ● First Indian woman to become Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen (1994) ● First Indian woman to become Miss World: Reita Faria (1966) ● First Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal ● First Indian Woman to go in space: Kalpana Chawla ● First woman to head any Wakf board in India : Bader Sayeed (TN Wakf Board) ● First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event: P.T.Usha ● First Indian woman to win a medal in an Olympic event: Karnam Malleshwari (bronze medal, Sydney Olympics) ● First Indian woman boxer to win an international event : M.C.Merykom ● First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha ● First Miss Universe of the new millennium: Lara Dutta ● First woman Ambassador from India: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (to USSR from 1947-49) ● First woman Central Minister: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur ● First woman chief justice of a High Court: Leila Seth (CJ of Himachal Pradesh, 1991) ● First woman Chief Minister of an Indian state: Sucheta Kriplani (Uttar Pradesh from 1963-1967) ● First woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha: Nargis Dutt ● First woman Governor of an Indian state: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh from 1947-1948) ● First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu: Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1997) ● First woman IPS Officer of India: Kiran Bedi ● First woman Judge of the Supreme Court: Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1989) ● First woman judicial officer: Anna Chandy, who was appointed munsif in the Travancore state in 1937. ● First woman Minister of an Indian state: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (Uttar Pradesh) ● First woman officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to be promoted to the rank of air commodore: 55-year old Padma Bandhopadhyay who was commissioned to the IAF in 1968. ● First woman President of Indian National Congress: Annie Besant (1917) ● First woman President of UN General Assembly: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (1953-54) ● First woman Prime Minister of India: Late Indira Gandhi (1966-1977 and 1980-1984). ● First woman Speaker of an Indian state: Shano Devi ● First woman Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly :Kavali Prathibha Bharati ● First woman winner of the Bharat Ratna: Indira Gandhi (1971) ● Grandma Madonna from India: Asha Bhonsle ● India's first commercial pilot: Durba Banerjee (1966, Indian Airlines) ● India's first Test-Tube Baby: Kruti Parekh ● India's first woman railway driver: Surekha Yadao ● India's first woman tabla maestro : Dr Aban Mistry ● India's officially recognized billionth citizen: Astha (She was born on May 11,2000 at New Delhi). ● World's first woman Airbus pilot: Durba Banerjee ● Youngest Indian to swim across the English Channel: Arati PradhanFirst American President to visit India Dwight David Eisenhower ● First Asian to be elected president of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): Lord Navnit Dholakia ● First Asian to head a British university: Lord Swaraj Paul (when he was elected Chancellor of the Wolverhampton University on May 9, 2000) ● First British Prime Minister to visit India: Harold Macmillan ● First Chairman of the University Grants Commission: S.S.Bhatnagar ● First Chief Election Commissioner of India: Sukumar Sen (21.3.1950 to 19.12.1958) ● First Chief Justice of India: Harilal J.Kania (26.1.1950-6.11.1951) ● First Chief Minister of the tri-lingual Bombay Presidency: B.G.Kher ● First Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshall Sir Thomas Elmherst (1947-1950) ● First Chief of Army Staff: Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Sinhji (1.4.1955 to 14.5.1955) ● First Commander-in-Chief: Gen.Sir Roy Bucher (1.1.1948 - 14.1.1949) ● First Dalit Lok Sabha Speaker: G M C Balayogi ● First Defence Minister of Independent India: Sardar Baldev Singh ● First Deputy Prime Minister of India: Sardar Vallabhai Patel ● First Director General of ICAR: B.P.Pal ● First Eunuch to be elected as a Mayor of an Indian city: Kamla Jaan, who elected Mayor of Katni city in Madhya Pradesh in January 2000. ● First Eunuch to get elected to a state legislature: Shabnam Mausi, won the Sohagpur Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh in the February 2000 elections. ● First European to invade India: Alexander ● First Field Marshal: Gen. S.H.F.J. Manekshaw ● First fighter pilot to win the Param Vir Chakra: Flying Officer Nirmaljeet Singh Sekhon (posthumous) for IAF in 1971 Indo-Pak conflict. ● First Foreign Secretary of Free India: K.P.S.Menon ● First Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten ● First Indian bowler to get a hattrick in Test cricket: Harbhajan Singh ● First Indian Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee (April 1, 1954). ● First Indian Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R.D.Katari (1958-1962). ● First Indian Governor-General of India: C.Rajagopalachari ● First Indian to be awarded with the 'Victoria Cross': Khuda Dad Khan (for Gallantry in Belgium during the first World War) ● First Indian to be elected a member of British Parliament: Dadabhoi Naoroji ● First Indian to be elected to the US House of Representatives: Dilip Singh Saund ● First Indian to go in space: Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma. He went in the Soyuz 7-II Spacecraft on April 3, 1984 and returned on April 11, 1984. ● First Indian to hoist the National Flag over the North Pole: Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar. ● First Indian to record a song on a gramophone disc: Sashi Mukhi of Classic Theatres, Calcutta (1902) ● First Indian to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen ● First Indian to win an Olympic Bronze: Khashaba Jadhav (wresting; 1952, Helsinki Olympics) ● First Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Tournament: Pullela Gopi Chand (March 11,2001) ● First Indian to win the World Billiards Championship: Wison Jones ● First Jnanpith Award Winner: G.Sankara Kurup (1965), for his work ‘Ottakkuzhal’ in Malyalam. ● First Minister without Portfolio: N.Gopalswami Ayengar in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet. He, however, went on to become the Minister of Defence. ● First Photographer in India: Raja Deendayal ● First President of India: Dr Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962) ● First President of the Indian Union of Civil Liberties: Rabindranath Tagore (1930s). ● First Prime Minister of India: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964) ● First Prime Minister to win a popular entertainment award: Atal Behari Vajpayee (when he won the Screen-Videocon "Best Lyricist" prize in the non-film music category for his collection of poems titled "Nayi Disha" in February 2000). ● First Secretary-General of South-South Commission: Dr Manmohan Singh ● First Surveyor General of India: Sir George Everest ● First Vice-President of India: Dr S.Radhakrishnan (1952-1962) ● First Winner of Param Vir Chakra: Maj.Somnath Sharma (posthumously) in November, 1947 ● India's first Test-tube baby: Harsha (born on August 6, 1986). ● Indian Johann Sebastian Bach: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ● India's longest serving Chief Minister : Jyoti Basu ● Only Army Chief to be awarded with Maha Vir Chakra twice: Late Gen. A.S.Vaidya ● Prime-Minister—Indira Gandhi ● Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel through Swimming—Arti Shah ● Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.) ● I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi ● President of National Congress—Anne Besant ● Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—Rose-William Baithu ● Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Teresa (for peace) ● Awardee of Miss World—Reeta Farhia ● Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen ● Mayer—Tara Charian (Madras-1957) ● Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur ● Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani ● Parliamentrian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938) ● Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahaib Fatima Bibi ● Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh) ● Session Judge of the Counting—Anna Chandi (Kerala) ● Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt. Everest—Bacchendri Pal ● Awardee of Norman Barlog Prize—Dr. Amrita Patil ● Literature who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award—Amrita Pritam (1956) ● Honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’—Indira Gandhi ● Awardee of Lenin peace award—Aruna Asaf Ali ● Awardee of Jananpith Purshkar—Asha Purna Devi (1976) ● Woman who reached ‘Antarctica’—Mahel Musa (1977) ● Woman who reached the North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993) ● Woman who travelled All round the world—Ujjawala Patil (1988) by Boat ● Chief Engineer—P. K. Tresia Naguli ● Pilot—Flying Officer Sushma Mukhopaddhyaya ● Air Lines Pilot—Capt. Durga Banerjee ● Commander of Boeing 737 Plane—Capt. Saudamini Deshmukh ● Paratrooper of Indian Air Force—Geeta Ghosh ● I. A. S.—Auna George Malhotra ● First television news broadcaster—Pratima Puri ● Participated in mustic programme of U.N.O.—M. S. Subbuluxmi (1966) ● Woman participated in Olympic games—Meri Lila Row (1952) ● Woman who won the medal in Olympic games—Malleshwari (weight lifting—Sydney) ● Woman who won the Gold Medal in Asian games—Kamaljeet Sidhu (1970, 400 metre) ● Woman who won the medal in Commonwealth games—Anil Ghiya and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman Doubles Badminton, 1978) ● Medal winner in International Athletic Championship—Anju B. George (2003 Paris) ● Grandmaster winner in Chess—Bhagiya Sri Thispey (1988) ● One hundred wicket taker in International Cricket—Indulgi (1986) ● Awardee of Arjun Purskar—N. Lamsden (Hockey, 1961) ● Woman who made hat-trick in football—Youlandade-Suza (1978) ● Awardee of Ashok Chakra—Neerja Bhanot (Posthumously) ● Awardee of Sena Medal—Vimla Devi (1988) ● Degree of graduation—Kadambni Ganguly (Bose) and Chandramukhi Bose (Kolkata University, 1883) ● Awardee of B. E. degree—Ella-Majumdar (1951) ● M.B.B.S. Degree awardee—Vidhumuti Bose and Virginia Mitter (Kolkata Medical College) ● First Surgeon—Dr. Prema Mukherjee ● Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank—K. J. Udesi (2003) ● Chairman of NABARD—Ranjana Kumar ● D. I. G. (Police)—Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya ● Lieutenant General—Punita Arora ● Chairman of Indian Air lines—Shushma Chawla ● Barrister—Cornonia Sorabji (Allahabad High Court-1923) ● Advocate—Regina Guha ● Ambassador—Vijayalaxmi Pandit (U.S.S.R.-1947) ● Woman who crossed over Gibralter Strait by Swimming—Arati Pradhan ● World Record in Powerlifting—Sumita Laha (1989) ● Represented the nation in all three games (Cricket, Hockey and Basketball)—Shrin Khushro Kiyasa ● First Commercial test Pilot of the world—Capt. Surun Darsi and Capt. Rose Lopar ● Pilot of Indian Air Force—Harita Daoel ● Twice scaled the Mt. Everest—Santosh Yadav ● Ramon Magsaysay Prize awardee—Kiran Bedi ● Heroin awarded Dada Sahaib Phalke Prize—Devika Rani Rorik ● Youngest woman who scaled the Mt. Everest twice—Decky Dolma ● Scientist who was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award—Ashima Chatterjee ● Foreign Secretary—Chokila Ayyar ● First Chief Secretary of the Country—Nirmla Buch ● First Space traveller—Kalpana Chawla ● Joint Director of C.B.I.—Archana Sunder Lingam ● Winner of Murti Devi Prize—Pratibha Rai ● Woman Contested the Presidential election—Capt. Laxmi Sahgal ● Air Vice-Marshal and Air-Marshal in Indian Air Force—P. Bondyopaddhyay ● Non-military Police Advisor in U.N.O.—Kiran Bedi ● Revenue Secretary—Vinita Rai ● Referee in Boxing—Rajia Sabnam ● First woman of Indian origin who stayed for the longest time in space—Sunita William● First Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten ● Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti Rajgopalachari ● Chief of the Indian Armed Forces—General K. M. Carriappa ● Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw ● President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad ● Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan ● Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru ● Non-Congress Prime-Minister—Atal Behari Bajpai ● British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings ● Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma ● I. C. S.—Satendra Nath Tagore ● Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen ● Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave ● Novel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore ● President of National Congress—Vyomesh Chand Banerjee ● Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar ● Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen ● Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh ● Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan ● Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim ● Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya ● Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman ● Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri ● Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965) ● Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart—Dr. P. Venugopal ● Successful heart transplanted person—Devi Ram (1994) ● President of National Human Rights Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra ● Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968) ● Indian who won the World Billiard award—Wilson Jans ● Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt. Ravi Shankar ● Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Behari Bajpai (1977) ● Indian member in British House of Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) ● First President of Indian Science Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee ● Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times—Sherpa-Augarita ● Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma ● Indian Managing Director of World Bank—Gautam Kazi ● Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu ● Indian players played Davis Cup—M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921) ● Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Single (from England) ● Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr. Meghnad Saha ● Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991) ● Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993) ● Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon ● Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952) ● First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose ● An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram ● Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council—Sir. S. P. Sinha ● Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C. Niogi ● Indian member of American Congress—Deleep Singh ● Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket—Harbhajan Singh ● Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket—Virendra Sehwag ● First Marshal of Indian Air Force—Arjan Singh ● First Indian who individually won the Gold medel in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra ● First Indian who won the Bronze medel in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar