Here is a long and complete list of First in India. The list contains achievements which were achieved by extra-ordinary peoples in India in different categories….
- Governor-General of Independent India —— Lord Lewis Mountbatten
- Indian Governor-General of Independent India —— Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
- Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India —— General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
- Field Marshall —— General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
- Speaker of loksabha —— Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956)
- President —— Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Vice-President —— Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime-Minister —— Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Home Minister —— Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- Finance Minister of India —— R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
- Auditor General of India —— V. Narahari Rao
- Director of CBI —— DP Kohli
- National Security Adviser —— Brijesh Mishra
- Governor of RBI —— Sir Osborne Smith
- Non-Congress Prime-Minister —— Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
- British Governor-General of Bengal —— Warren-Hastings
- Space traveller —— S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
- C. S. —— Satendra Nath Tagore
- Woman IAS —— Anna Ranjan George, 1950
- Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna —— Sachin Tendulkar
- Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming —— Mihir Sen
- Woman to swim across the English Channel —— Arati Saha, 1959
- Raman-Magsaysay awardee —— Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- Nobel prize winner —— Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Nobel Prize in Physics —— C. V. Raman in 1930
- President of National Congress —— Wyomesh Chand Banerjee
- Chairman of Lok Sabha —— G. B. Mavlankar
- First Woman Chief Minister —— Sucheta Kriplani
- Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha —— Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
- 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
- Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ —— Indira Gandhi
- Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters —— Mrinal Sen
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter —— Sivaji Ganeshan
- Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee —— Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar —— G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
- Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar —— Ashapurna Devi, 1976
- Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner —— Amrita Pritam, 1956
- Woman Honours Graduate —— Kamini Roy
- Woman Director General of Police —— Kanchan C Bhattacharya
- Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart —— Dr. P. Venugopal
- Woman to received Nobal Prize —— Mother Teresa
- Woman Governor —— Sarojini Naidu
- Licensed Pilot —— J R D Tata
- Woman Air Pilot —— Durba Banerjee
- Woman Teacher —— Savitribai Phule
- 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 Bihari 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
- Actress to win Padma Shri Award —— Nargis Dutt, 1958
- Indian players played Davis Cup —— M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
- Tennis Grandslam title winner —— Mahesh Bhupati
- Indian player who played the test cricket —— K. S. Ranjeet Singh (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 Commissioner 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
- Woman Graduates —— Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
- Woman Chief Justice of High Court —— Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
- 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
- Leanin Peace Prize —— Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Chairman of Finance Commission —— K. C. Niogi
- Woman Doctorate of Science —— Asima Chatterjee (1944)
- Woman IPS —— Kiran Bedi
- Woman Supreme Court judge —— Kumari Fathima Beevi
- Indian member of American Congress —— Deleep Singh
- Editor of Time Magazine —— Bobby Ghosh
- Director of CBI becoming Governor —— Ashwani Kumar
- Person to reach the North Pole —— Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
- Person to reach the South Pole —— Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
- Nishan-e-Pakistan —— Morarji Desai, 1990
- Magsaysay Award —— Vinoba Bhave, 1958
- Miss World —— Reita Faria in 1966
- Miss Asia Pacific —— Zeenat Aman in 1970
- Miss Universe —— Sushmita Sen in 1994
- Miss Earth —— Nicole Faria in 2010
- Place to get electricity —— Darjeeling in 1897
- Sound film —— Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
- Colour film —— Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
- Oscar winner —— Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
- Dadasaheb Phalke Award —— Devika Rani in 1969
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters —— Sivaji Ganesan
- Test-tube baby —— Durga Agarwal, born 1978
- Newspaper —— Hickey’s Bengal Gazette started in 1760
- First Lady Doctor —— Anandibai Joshi
- Satellite —— Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
- Man to climb Mt Everest —— Tenzing Norgay
- Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen —— Phu Dorjee, 1984
- Woman to climb Mt everest —— Bachendri Pal
- District to achieve 100% literacy rate —— Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
- Captain in Tests —— C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
- ODI captain —— Ajit Wadekar
- 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
- Individual Medal in Olympic games —— KD Jadhav
- Grandmaster —— Viswanathan Anad
- Woman Grandmaster —— Koneru Humpy
- First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games —— Abhinav Bindra
- First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games —— Vijendra Kumar
- Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge —— Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Fellow of the Royal Society —— Ardaseer Cursetjee
- Woman External Affairs Minister —— Sushma Swaraj
- First Gold Medallist on International Track —— Hima Das