First In The World And First In India

 First In The World And First In India

First In The World

The first person to reach Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
The first person to reach North Pole	Robert Peary
The first person to reach South Pole	Amundsen
The first religion of the world	Hinduism
The first country to print book	China
The first country to print book	China
The first country to commence competitive examination	China in civil services
The first President of the U.S.A.	George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain	Robert Walpole
The first Governor General of the United Nations	Trigveli (Norway)
The first country to win football World cup	Uruguay
The first country to prepare a constitution	U.S.A.
The first Governor General of Pakistan	Mohd. Ali Jinnah
The first country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first European to attack India	Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China	Marco Polo
The first person to fly aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first person to sail round the world	Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon	U.S.A.
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space	Russia
The first country to host the modern Olympics	Greece
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)
The first person to land on the moon	Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first shuttle to go in space	Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars	Viking-I
The first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
The first muslim Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country	Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first man to fly into space	Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first batsman to score, three test century in three	Mohd. Azharuddin successive tests on debut
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon

First In IndiaMale

The first President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
The first President of Indian National Congress	W. C. Banerjee
The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
The first Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first British Governor General of India	Lord William Bentinck
The first British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
The first Governor General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free	C. Rajgopalachari India
The first man who introduced printing press in India	James Hicky
The first Indian to join the I.C.S.	Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in space	Rakesh Sharma
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without	The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Chief of the Army Staff	Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
The first Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council	S. P. Sinha
The first President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the	Charan Singh Parliament
The first Field Marshal of India	S. H. F. Manekshaw
The first Indian to get Nobel prize in Physics	C. V. Raman
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Indian to cross English channel	Mihir Sen
The first person to receive Jnanpith award	Sri Shankar Kurup
The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Education Minister	Abul Kalam Azad
The first Home Minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R. D. Katari
The first judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to receive Paramveer Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in	Hargovind Khurana Medicine
The first Chinese traveller to visit India	Fahein
The first person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the central cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hiralal J. Kania

Female

The first lady to become “Miss World”	Rita Faria
The first woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C. B. Muthamma
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C. B. Muthamma
The first woman Governor of a State in free India	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
The first woman Prime Minister	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman President of the Indian National Congress	Mrs. Annie Besant
The first woman chief justice of a High Court	Mrs. Leela Seth
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman President of the United Nations General	Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit Assembly
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman chairman of Union Public Service	Roze Millian Bethew Commission
The first woman Director General of Police (DGP)	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman I.P.S. Officer	Mrs. Kiran Bedi
The first woman to receive Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi

Popular Names Of Eminent Persons (Sobriquets)

Nickname	Person
Father of the Nation	Mahatma Gandhi
Bapu	Mahatma Gandhi
Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Grand Old Man of India	Dadabhai Naoroji
Strong (Iron) Man	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Man of Peace	Lal Bahadur Shastri
Punjab Kesari	Lala Lajpat Rai
Bengal Kesari	Ashutosh Mukherjee
Sher-e-Kashmir	Sheikh Abdullah
Bangabandhu	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Deshbandhu	Chittaranjan Das
Deshbandhu	C.F. Andrews
Lokmanya	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Loknayak	Jayaprakash Narayan
Jana Nayak	Karpuri Thakur
Rajashree	Purushottam Das Tandon
Gurudev	Rabindranath Tagore
Guruji	M.S. Golvalkar
Desh Ratna	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Mahamana	Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya
Netaji	Subhash Chandra Bose
Chacha	Jawaharlal Nehru
Rajaji/C.R.	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Sparrow	Major General Rajinder Singh
Young Turk	Chandra Shekhar
Tau	Chaudhury Devi Lal
Sahid-e-Azam	Bhagat Singh
Nightinagle of India	Sarojini Naidu
Lady with the lamp	Florence Nightingale
Swar Kokila	Lata Mangeshkar
Udanpari	P.T. Usha
Mother	Mother Teresa
Vishwa Kavi	Rabindranath Tagore
Kaviguru	Rabindranath Tagore
Sardar	Vallabhbhai Patel
Tota-e-Hind	Amir Khushro
Lal, Bal, Pal	Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
Bihar Vibhuti	Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh
Bapuji	Jagjeevan Ram
Napoleon of India	Samudra Gupta
Shakespeare of India	Mahakavi Kalidas
Akbar of Kashmir	Jainul Abdin
Father of Gujarat	Ravi Shankar Maharaj
Grandfather of Indian Films	Dhundiraj Govind Phalke
Morning Star of India Renaissance	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
King maker of Indian History	Sayyed Bandhu
Anna	C.N. Annadurai
G.B.S.	George Bernard Shaw
Haryana Hurricane	Kapil Dev
Little Master	Sunil Gavaskar
Magician of Hockey	Dhyanchand
Deshpriya	Yatindra Mohan Sengupta
Kuvempu	K.V. Puttappa
Little Corporal	Napoleon Bonaparte
Man of Destiny	Napoleon Bonaparte
Fuehrer	Adolf Hitler
King Maker	Earl of Warwick
Uncle Ho	Ho Chi Minh
Bard of Avon	William Shakespeare
Father of English Poetry	Geoffery Chaucer
Grand Old Man of Britain	Willium E. Gladstone
Maiden Queen	Queen Elizabeth I
Maid of Orleans	Joan of Arc
Man of Blood and Iron	Otto Van Bismark
II Duce	Benito Mussolini
Desert Fox	Gen. Ervin Rommel
Quaid-i-Azam	Md. Ali Jinnah's

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