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1. First Governor of Bengal – Lord Clive ( 1757 – 60)

2. Last Governor of Bengal – Lord Hastings ( 1772 – 74)

3. First Governor Genral of Bengal – Lord Hastings ( 1774 – 75)

4. First British Governor Gerneral of India – Lord Bentinck ( 1833 - 35)

5. First British Viceroy of India – Lord Canning ( 1856 – 62)

6. First President of Indian Rebublic – Dr. Rajendra Prasad

7. First Prime Minister of free India – Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

8. First Indian to win Nobel Prize – Rabindranath Tagore

9. First Muslim President of Indian National Congress –Baduddin Tyabji

10. First Muslim President of India – Dr. Zakir Hussain

11. First Governor General of free India – Lord Mountbatten

12. First and last Indian Governor General of India – C. Rajgopalachari

13. First man who introduced printing press in India – James Hicky

14. First Indian to join the I.C.S – Satyendra Nath Tagore

15. India’s first Cosmonaut – Rakesh Sharma

16. First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term – Morarji Desai

17. First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council – S. P. Sinha

18. First President of India who died while in office – Dr. Zakir Hussain

19. First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament – Charan Singh

20. First Field Marshal of India – Field Marshal S.H.F. J. Maneckshaw

21. First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics – C.V. Raman

22. First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

23. First Indian to cross English Channel – Mihir Sen

24. First Person to receive Jananpith award – G. Shanker Kurup

25. First Speaker of the Lok Sabha – G V Mavalankar

26. First Vice – President of India – Dr. S. Radhakrsihnan

27. First Home Minister Of India – Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel

28. First Person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen – Sherpa Ang Dorjee

29. First person to reach the South Pole – Col J K Bajaj

30. First Person to get Param Vir Chakra – Major Somnath Sharma

31. First Chief Election Commissioner – Sukumar Sen

32. First Person to receive Magsaysay Award – Vinoba Bhave

33. First Indian Origin person to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine – Hargobind Khurana

34. First Person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics – Amartya Sen

35. First Chief Justice of Supreme Court – Justice H. J. Kania

36. First Indian to win back to back medals in Olympics – Sushil Kumar ( 2008, 2012)

37. First Man to climb Mount Everest Twice – Nwang Gombu

38. First Man to Climb Mt. Everest 19 times – Apa Sherpa

39. First Indian Chess Grandmaster – Vishwanathan Anand ( 1988)

40. First Indian Pilot – J.R. D. Tata ( 1929)