First Men

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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