| 1. | first British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck |
| 2. | last British Governor General of India | Lord Mountbatten |
| 3. | first and last Indian Governor General of Free India | C. Rajagopalachari |
| 4. | first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut | Mohd. Azharuddin |
| 5. | first British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| 6. | first President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 7. | first Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 8. | first president of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| 9. | first Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| 10. | first Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 11. | first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term | Morarji Desai |
| 12. | first President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 13. | first batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 14. | first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| 15. | first Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 16. | first Indian to join I.C.S. | Satendranath Tagore |
| 17. | first Indian man in space | Rakesh Sharma |
| 18. | first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| 19. | first Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| 20. | first Indian member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P. Sinha |
| 21. | first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| 22. | first Field Marshal of India | S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| 23. | first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V. Raman |
| 24. | first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| 25. | first Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| 26. | first person to receive Gyanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| 27. | first Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar |
| 28. | first Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| 29. | first Education Minister | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 30. | first Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabha Bhai Patel |
| 31. | first Indian Air Chief Marshal | S. Mukharji |
| 32. | first Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| 33. | first judge of International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| 34. | first person to receive Paramveer Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| 35. | first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| 36. | first Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| 37. | first person to receive Magsaysay Award | Achrya Vinoba Bhave |
| 38. | first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana |
| 39. | first Chinese traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| 40. | first person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| 41. | first person to resign from the central cabinate | Shyama Prasad Mukharji |
| 42. | first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| 43. | first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| 44. | first person to receive Nobel Prize in Literature | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 45. | first Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |