FIRST MEN - INDIAN GK EXAM NOTES

First President of India - Dr. Rajendra Prasad

First Vice President of India - Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

First Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain

First Vice-President who died in harness - Krishna Kanth 

First Chief Justice of India - Harilal. J. Kania 

First Dalit Chief Justice of India - K.G. Balakrishnan 

First British Governor General of Bengal - Warren Hastings

First Governor General of India - William Bentinck

First Governor General of Free India - Lord Mount Batten

First Viceroy of India - Lord Canning

First Indian to become the Governor General of free India - C. Rajagopalachari 

First Indian to join I.C.S (now IAS) - Satyendra Nath Tagore 

First Indian to become the member of Viceroy's Executive Council - Lord S.P.Sinha 

First Indian to become the Judge of International Court of Justice - Dr.B.N Rao 

First Indian to become the President of ICJ - Justice Nagendra Singh 

First Indian in British Parliament - Dada Bhai Naoroji

First Indian Member of House of Lords(British) - S.P.Sinha

First Deputy Prime Minister - Vallabhai Patel

First minister of Industries and Supplies - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

First Education Minister - Abdul Kalam Azad

First Indian to visit England (1832) - Raja Ram Mohan Roy

First Chairman of Rajya Sabha - Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

First Speaker of Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavlankar 

First Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen 

First Chairman of UGC - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 

First Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen

First Indian to make a solo air flight - JRD Tata

First Chief of the Air Staff - Subroto Mukherjee 

First to climb Mount Everest without oxygen - Phu Dorjee

First Indian in Space - Rakesh Sharma

First Indian to circumnavigate the globe - Lt.Col.K.S Rao

First Indian to reach the South Pole - Col.J.K. Bajaj

First Indian to reach the North Pole - Jaganathan Srinivasaraghavan  

First Indian to land on Antarctica - Ram Charan