General Awareness is one such section that plays a significant role in increasing the score in any competitive examination. If you go through any SSC or Railways examination question paper, you will notice that the General Awareness section generally consists of three sections i.e. Static G.K and Current Affairs out of which the majority of marks holds by the Static G.K section followed by Current Affairs. In today’s blog post I am providing a list of First in India which is one of the frequently asked topics in the General Awareness section.
This topic is useful for those who are preparing for SSC and Railways examinations because questions from this topic are frequently asked in SSC, Railways and state level government exams. You can expect questions of 1 to 2 marks form this. Therefore, make sure you note down the list properly in your notebook. As you know that revision is the key, hence, do not forget to revise it on a weekly basis in order to gain a grip over this topic. Following is the list of First happened in India.
List of First in India
| Name of the Personalities | Field/Designation |
| Bhanu Athaiya for Best costume design for Gandhi(film) in 1982 | Oscar Winner |
| Devika Rani, 1969 | Dadasaheb Phalke Award |
| Durga Agarwal, 1978 | Test Tube Baby |
| Dr. Zakir Hussain | Muslim President of India |
| Lord William Bentinck | British Governor General of India |
| Morarji Desai | PM of India who resigned without completing full term |
| Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji | Chief of the Army Staff |
| S.P. Sinha | Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council |
| Shyama Prasad Mukherjee | Person to resign from the central cabinet |
| Amartya Sen | Person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Hickey’s Bengal Gazette,1760 | News Paper |
| Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (13-may-1952) | Vice President |
| Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru | Prime Minister |
| Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel | Home Minister |
| R.K Shanmukham Chetty | Finance Minister |
| V. Narahari Rao | Auditor-General |
| DP Kohli | Director of CBI |
| Brijesh Mishra | National Security Adviser |
| Sir Osborne Smith | Governor of RBI |
| Balkrishna Doshi | First Indian architect to win prestigious Pritzker Prize |
| Lord Lewis Mountbatten | Governor General of Independent India |
| Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | Indian Governor General of Independent India |
| General K.M. Cariappa,1949 | Commander in Chief |
| General S.H.F.J. Manekshaw | Field Marshall |
| G.V Mavalankar(1952 to 56) | Speaker of Lok Sabha |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad(26-Jan-1950) | President |
| Amrita Pritam | Woman Sahitya Akademi Award winner |
| Kamini Roy | Woman Honours Graduate |
| Kanchan C Bhattacharya | Woman DGP |
| Mother Teresa | Woman Noble Prize Awardee |
| Warren Hastings | British Governor General of Bengal |
| Squadron Leader Mr. Rakesh Sharma | Space Traveller |
| Anna Ranjan George,1950 | Woman IAS |
| Satendra Nath Tagore | Indian Civil Service |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Sports Person to receive Bharat Ratna |
| Mihir Sen | Swimmer who crossed English channel by swimming |
| Arati Saha | Woman to swim across English Channel |
| Acharya Vinoba Bhave | Raman-Magsaysay Awardee |
| Rabindra Nath Tagore | Nobel Prize winner |
| Sir C.V Raman | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Sucheta Kriplani | Woman Chief Minister |
| Smt. Meira Kumar | Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha |
| Sukumar Sen | Chief Election Commissioner |
| Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh | Indian Chairman in International Court |
| Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan | Bharat Ratna to Foreigner |
| Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim | Leader of Indian Antarctica Mission |
| Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya | Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
| Dr. S Radhakrishnan, C Rajagopalachari & Sir C.V Raman | Awarded with Bharat Ratna |
| Indira Gandhi | Woman Awarded with Bharat Ratna |
| Mrinal Sen | Commandeur of the order of Arts & Letters |
| Sivaji Ganeshan | Chevalier of the order of Arts & Letters |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | Posthumous Bharat Ratna Awardee |
| G. Shankar Kurup(Malayalam-1965) | Bharatiya Gyan Peeth Puraskar |
| Ashapurna Devi,1976 | Woman Gyan Peeth Puraskar |
| Sarojini Naidu | Woman Governor |
| J R D Tata | Licensed Pilot |
| Durba Banerjee | Woman Air Pilot |
| Savitribai Phule | Woman Teacher |
| Pt. Ravi Shankar | Grammy Award |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1977) | Person delivered lecture in Hindi in U.N.O |
| Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892) | Indian Member in British House of Commons |
| Ramvilas Sharma | Vyas Samman Awardee |
| Gautam Kazi | Indian MD of World Bank |
| C.K Naidu | Player awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ |
| Nargis Dutt | Actress to win ‘Padma Shri’ Award |
| Dr. Meghnad Saha | Scientist Elected for Lok Sabha |
| Dr. Safuddin Kichlu | Lenin Peace Prize Awardee |
| Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991 | Woman Chief Justice of High Court |
| Ram Prasad Ram | High Court Judge during British Rule |
| K.C Niogi | Chairman of Finance Commission |
| Kiran Bedi | Woman IPS |
| Kumari Fathima Beevi | Woman Supreme Court Judge |
| Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar | Person to reach North Pole |
| Col. Jatinder Kumar Bajaj | Person to reach South Pole |
| Reita Faria, 1966 | Miss World |
| Zeenat Aman, 1970 | Miss Asia Pacific |
| Sushmita Sen, 1994 | Miss Universe |
| Nicole Faria, 2010 | Miss Earth |
| Darjeeling, 1897 | Place to get Electricity |
| Alam Ara, 1931 | Sound Film |
| Kisan Kanya, 1937 | Colour Film |
| Anandibai Joshi | First Lady Doctor |
| Aryabhata, 19-Apr-1975 | Satellite |
| Tenzing Norgay | Man to climb Mt. Everest |
| Phu Dorjee, 1984 | Man to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen |
| Bachendri Pal | Woman to climb Mt. Everest |
| Viswanathan Anand | Grandmaster |
| Koneru Humpy | Woman Grandmaster |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge |
| Ardaseer Cursetjee | Fellow of Royal Society |
| Smt. Sushma Swaraj | Woman External Affairs Minister |
| Abhinav Bindra | Won gold medal in Olympic games |
| Miss C.B. Muthumma | The first woman Ambassador |
| Santosh Yadav | First woman to climb Mount Everest twice |
| Harita Kaur Deol | First woman Pilot in Indian Air Force |
| Roze Millian Bethew | First woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission |
| Charan Singh | PM of India who did not face Parliament |
| S. Mukherjee | Indian Air Chief Marshal |
| Vice Admiral R.D. Katari | Indian Naval Chief |
| Major Somnath Sharma | Person to receive Paramveer Chakra |
| Hargovind Khurana | Person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| Fahein | Chinese traveller to visit India |
| Saifuddin Kitchlu | Person to receive Stalin Prize |
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