List of First in India (male)

• First governor of Bengal - Lord Clive.
• First governor general of Bengal -Warren Hastings.
• First Governor General of India - Lord William Bentic.
• First viceroy of India -Lord Canning.
• First Indian Governor General of independent India -  C. Rajgopalachari.
• First Governor General of independent India - Lord Mountbatten. 15 August 1947 to 20 June 1948.
• First President of Indian National Congress - W. C.Banerjee.
• First Indian to pass ICS - Surendra Nath Benerjee.
• First Indian ICS officer - Satyendranath Tagore.
• First Indian cosmonaut to go into space - Rakesh Sharma
• First temporary president of the constituent assembly -  Dr Sachidanand Sinha
• First commander in chief of India - General K.M. Cariappa
• First Indian Nobel Laureate -  Rabindranath Tagore
• First Indian judge of the International Court of Justice -  Dr Nagendra Singh
• First Indian to get Bharat Ratna award  - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
• First Field Marshal -General S.F.J. Manekshaw.
• First President of constituent assembly -  Dr Rajendra Prasad.
• First Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen
• First Indian to get Gyanpeeth award - G Sankara Kurup.
• First Muslim president of Indian Republic -  Dr Zakir Hussain
• First Indian to win Pak strait Ocean swimming contest -  Baidyanath Nath.
• First speaker of Lok Sabha - G V mavalankar 1952 - 1957
• First person to make printing press popular in India - James hickey
• First Education Minister of independent India -  Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad.
• First president of Indian Republic - Dr Rajendra Prasad.
• First Prime Minister of independent India -  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
• First home minister of independent India -Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
• First Vice President of independent India - Dr S Radhakrishnan.
• First Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal - Sir Thomas elmhirst.
• First Indian Air Chief of India -  Air Marshal S. Mukherjee.
• First chief of Army staff - General M. Rajendra Singh.
• First chief of Naval Staff of India - Vice Admiral R.D. Katari.
• First large scale atomic reactor of India -Apsara 1956.
• First person to get Param Vir Chakra -  Major Somnath Sharma.
• Fast atomic submarine of India -  INS Chakra.
• First Indian scientist to get Nobel Prize -  C.V. Raman (physics).
• First Indian submarine -  INS Kaveri.
• First scientist of Indian Origin to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science - Dr. Hargobind Khurana.
• First aircraft carrier Indian ship - INS Vikrant.
• First Chinese pilgrim to visit India - Fa-hien.
• First medium range missile -  Agni.
• First e-business newspaper of India -  Financial Express
• First scientist of Indian Origin to win Nobel Prize in physics - Subramanium Chandrashekhar.
• First Indian missile -  Prithvi.
• First Indian to win Stalin award -  Saifuddin kitchlu.
• India's first nuclear centre - Tarapur
• First Indian to win Magsaysay Award - Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1958
• First Open University - Andhra Pradesh Open University
• First Lok Sabha members to be elected with record maximum number of votes - P.V. Narasimha Rao.
• India's first minister to resign from Union Cabinet -  Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 1950.
• First British to visit India -  Hawkins
• First Asian Games organised -  Delhi in 1951
• First Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen.
• First Muslim president of Indian National Congress - Badruddin tyabji
• First chief justice of India justice -  Hiralal J kania.
• First person to submit the proposal of Indian independence in a congress session -  Hasrat mohani.
• First university of India - Nalanda University
• First Indian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen cylinder -  Sherpa Phu Dorji.
• First foreign person to get Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul ghaffar Khan.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr Amartya Sen.
• First Army Institute of Information Technology founded - Hyderabad
• First test tube baby of India - Indira (baby Harsha).
• First Indian pilot -  J.R.D. Tata 1929.
• First Indian to reach Antarctica - Lt. Ram Charan 1960
• First Post office opened in India - Kolkata 1727.
• First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
• First Prime Minister of India to resign from office -  Morarji Desai
• First Prime Minister of India to lose an election - Indira Gandhi.
• First president of India to die in office -  Dr. Zakir Hussain.
• First man to climb Mount Everest twice - Nawang Gombu.
• First Indian to reach the South Pole -  Col. I.K. Bajaj.
• First Indian to recipient of Oscar award -  Bhanu athaiya.
• First American President to visit India - Dwight David Eisenhower.
• First British prime minister to visit India- Harold Mc Milan.
• First Indian author to get Anderson award -  Ruskin Bond.
• First Indian to win world billiards trophy-Wilson Jones.
• First Indian space tourist - Santosh George.