Dear Readers,
As you all know that, in previous IBPS Clerk exams, questions were asked on the First Persons in India. So here we are posting a short note on First Persons in India which is very much important for upcoming bank exams.
First Persons in India
- President - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Prime-Minister - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Governor-General of Independent India - Lord Lewis Mountbatten
- Indian Governor-General of Independent India - Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
- Speaker of Loksabha - Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
- Vice-President - Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
- Home Minister - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- Finance Minister of India - R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
- Governor of RBI - Sir Osborne Smith
- First Woman Chief Minister - Sucheta Kriplani
- Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen
- Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
- Woman Governor - Sarojini Naidu
- Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha - Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
- President of National Congress - Womesh Chandra Banerjee
- First President of Indian Science Congress - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
- Foreigner Awardees’ Of Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
- Nobel Prize Winner - Rabindra Nath Tagore
- First Lady Doctor - Anandibai Joshi
- Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’ - Indira Gandhi
- Indian Who Won the Grammy Award - Pt. Ravi Shankar
- Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner - Amrita Pritam, 1956
- Woman To Receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
- Won the Booker Prize - Arundhati Roy for her novel "The God of Small Things" (1997).
- Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K. Naidu
- Literature Who Was Awarded Murti Devi Purskar - C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
- Writer Who Was Awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ - Ramvilas Sharma
- Raman-Magsaysay Awardee - Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Devika Rani (1969)
- Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave, 1958
- Miss World - Reita Faria in 1966
- Miss Asia Pacific - Zeenat Aman in 1970
- Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen in 1994
- Miss Earth - Nicole Faria in 2010
- Sound Film - Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani
- Colour Film - Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani
- First Viceroy of India : Lord Canning
- The first and the last Governor-general of Independent India : C Rajagopalachari
- First Education minister of India : Abul Kalam Azad
- First Speaker of the Lok Sabha : Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
- First Indian Justice (President) at the International Court of Justice : Nagendra Singh
- First Commander-in Chief of Independent India : Generaal Kariappa
- First Field marshal of India :general Manekshaw
- First Muslim President of Indian National Congress : Badruddin Tyabji
- First Indian to be successful in ICS (Indian Civil Service) : Satyendranath Tagore
- First Indian who became the member of the British Parliament : Dadabhai Naoroji
- First Indian Pilot : J R D Tata
- First Indian Scientist who received Nobel Prize : C V Raman
- First Indian who was honoured with Bharat Ratna : Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- First Person who received Gyanpeeth Award : G Shankara Kurup
- First Indian who went to the space : Rakesh Sharma
- First Indian who crossed English Channel : Mihir Sen
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Updated on 15-02-2016