First Indian - Pt IV

 

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Personality

First Women President of India

Pratibha Devisingh Patil

First woman to win the Booker Prize

Arundhati Roy

First Indian person to climb Mount Everest

without Oxygen cylinder

Sherpa Phu Dorji

First Man to climb Mount Everest twice

Nawang Gombu Sherpa

First person to reach Antarctica

Lt.Ram Charan

First Person to make Printing Press Popular

in India

James Hickey

First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space)

Sqn.Ldr.Rakesh Sharma

First Chinese pilgrim to visit India

Fa-hien

First to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS)

Surjo Kumar Chakroborty

First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of programmes (DDP) of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics

C.V Raman

First Speaker of Lok Sabha

G. V. Mavlankar

First Chairperson of Lokpal of India

Pinaki Chandra Ghose

First female Jawan in the Army

Shanti Tigga

First Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft without co-pilot

IAF Officer Avani Chaturvedi

First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize

Divya Ajith Kumar

First Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian

gold medal

Navjot Kaur

First Indian woman badminton player to win

an Asian Games medal

Saina Nehwal

First Indian woman to win a medal at Asian

Games

Santhi Soundarajan

First person to win the international bronze

medal in skiing

Aanchal Thakur

First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal

P. V. Sindhu in Badminton

First female to represent India at the Summer

Olympics

Nora Polley

First Individual Gold Medal won by

Abhinav Bindra

First Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling

Sakshi Malik

First Judge in International Court of Justice

Dr. Nagender Singh

First Wax statue of a Living Indian

Mahatma Gandhi

India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with

a record maximum number of votes

P.V.Narasimha Rao
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