0List of First in India (Male) Static GK for Competitive Exams
1) First President of Independent India - Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950 - 1962)
2)First Vice-President of Independent India - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 – 1962)
3) First Prime Minister of India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru (1947 – 1964)
4) First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947 – 1950)
5) First President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee (1885)
6) First Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967 – 1969)
7) First British Governor General of India - Warren Hastings (1773 – 1785)
8) First British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning (1858 - 1862)
9) First Governor General of Independent India - Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)
10) First Indian Governor General of Independent India - C. Rajagopalachari (1948 – 1950)
11) First Indian to join Indian Civil Service - Satyendranath Tagore (1864)
12) India's First Man in Space - Rakesh Sharma (1984)
13) First President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1969)
14) First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh (1979 - 1980)
14) First Prime Minister in India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai (1977 – 1979)
16) First Education Minister of Independent India - Abdul Kalam Azad 17) First Home Minister of Independent India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
18) First Finance Minister of Independent India - R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty
19) First Railway Minister of Independent India - John Mathai
20) First Agriculture Minister of Independent India - P.S. Deshmukh
21) First Speaker of the Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavalankar (1952 – 1956)
22)First Chief Justice of India - Justice H.J. Kania (1950 – 1951)
23)First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
24) First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V. Raman (1930)
25) First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr. Amartya Sen (1998)
26) First Scientist Indian origin, to get Nobel prize in the field of Medical Science - Dr. Har Govind Khurana (1963) 27) First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)
28) First Bharat Ratna Award Recipients - C. Rajagopalachari, C.V.Raman, S.Radhakrishnan (1954)
29)First foreigner recipient of Bharat Ratna Award - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) Pakistan
30) First Jnanpeeth Award Recipient - Shankar Karup (1965) (Malayalam)
31)First Indian to win Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave (1958)
32)First Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray (1992)
33) First Individual Olympic Gold Medal - Abhinav Bindra (2008)
34)First Indian to win back to back medals in Olympics - Sushil Kumar (2008, 2012)
35)First Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)
36) First Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen (1958)
37) First Indian to climb Mount Everest - Nawang Gombu (1963)
