India has achieved many milestones but the first who are never been forgettable would always been remembered as the first:
* First President of India: Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
* First Prime minister of India: Jawahar Lal Nehru.
* First Vice President of India: Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
* First Defence minister of India: Baldev Singh.
* First Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858.
* First Finance Minister of India: R.k. Shamukhan Chetty.
*First Law Minister of India: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
* First Non Congress Prime Minister of India: Morarji Desai.
* First Woman Railway Minister of India: Mamta Banerjee.
* First Governor General of India: Warren Hasting, 1773.
* First Indian Governor General of India: C. Ramgopalachari, 1948.
* First Chief Justice of India: H.J. Kania.
* First ICS officer of India: Satyendranath Tagore.
* First Speaker of Loksabha: G.V. Mavlankar.
* First woman chief Minister in India: Sucheta Kriplani.
* First Astronaut of India: Rakesh Sharma in 1984.
* First Param veer chakra winner: Major Somnath Sharma.
* First Mrs Universe from India: Susmita Sen.
* First Mrs World from India: Reita Faria.
* First Mr Universe from India: Manohar Aich.
* First Ashok Chakra winner: Flt Lt Suhas Biswas, Hav Bachittar singh and Naik Bahadur Thapa.
* First Woman to Scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal.
* First Indian Person to reach South Pole: Jatinder kumar Bajaj.
* First Indian to Reach North pole: Jagannath Srinivasaraghvan.
* First Indian to walk across Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar.
* First Indian to swim across English Channel: Mihir Sen.
* First Indian woman to swim across English Channel: Arati Saha.
