First Person in India

First Person in India ● 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