“First Male Personalities of India”. This is an important topic of General Awareness for the upcoming Railways NTPC, GROUP D & SSC 2019  Exams. These questions will help you prepare efficiently for the upcoming examinations.

Railways Static GK: First in India

First Person (Male)

NAME

OTHER IMPORTANT FACTS

First President of Indian Republic

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, 1950 to 1962

  • President of the Constituent Assembly (1948-1950)

First Prime Minister of free India

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

  • He is also known as the architect of modern India.
  • Chairman of the constituent assembly.
  • Chairman of Union Constitution Committee, Union Powers Committee and States Committee

First Indian to win Nobel Prize

Rabindranath Tagore

  • Also Known as Gurudev.
  • Wrote National Anthem of India.

First President of Indian National Congress

W.C. Banerjee

 

First Muslim President of Indian National Congress

Badruddin Tayyabji

 

First Muslim President of India

Dr. Zakir Hussain

 

First British Governor General of India

Lord William Bentinck (1833-1835)

  • Sati system was banned during his regime.

First British Governor General of Bengal

Lord Warren Hasting (1773-1785)

  • First Maratha war and second Mysore war occured during his regime
  • Founded Asiatic Society of Bengal.

First British Viceroy of India

Lord Canning

  • Revolt of 1857 happened during his regime.
  • Established 3 universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.

First Governor General of free India

Lord Mountbatten

  • Indian Independence Bill 1947 was passed during his regime.

First and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India

C. Rajgopalachari

  • Informally called as Rajaji or C.R.

The first man who introduced printing press in India

James Hickey (Bengal Gazette)

  • Bible was the first book printed in India.

The First Indian to join the I.C.S

Satyendra Nath Tagore

 

First man in Space from India

Rakesh Sharma

 

First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term

Morarji Desai

 

First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India

General Cariappa

 

First Chief of Army Staff

Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

 

First Indian to join Viceroy’s executive council

S.P.Sinha

 

First President of India who died while in office

Dr. Zakir Hussain

  • He was awarded Bharat Ratna award.

 

First Muslim President of Indian Republic

Dr. Zakir Hussain

 

First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament

Charan Singh

  • Serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.

First Field Marshal of India

S.H.F. Manekshaw(1914-2008)

 

First person to get Nobel Prize in Physics from India

C.V.Raman

  • For the discovery of Raman Effect or Raman Scattering.

First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award

C. Rajgopalachari, Dr. Radhakrishnan &

CV Raman

  • First and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India
  • First Vice President of India: Dr. Radhakrishnan
  • Nobel Prize Winner: CV Raman

First Indian to cross English Channel

Mihir Sen

 

First Person to receive Jnanpith award

Sri Shankar Kurup

 

The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar

  • Also known as Dadasaheb
  • Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India

First Vice-President of India

Dr. Radhakrishnan

 

First Education Minister

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

 

First Home Minister of India

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

  • India's first Deputy Prime Minister.
  • Started Bardoli Satyagarh.
  • Chairman of Provincial Constitution Committee and Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities and Tribal and Excluded Areas.

First Indian Air Marshal

S. Mukherjee

 

First Indian Naval Chief

Vice Admiral R.D. Katari

 

First Indian Judge of International Court of Justice

Dr. Nagendra Singh

 

First person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen

Sherpa Dorjee

 

First person to get Param Vir Chakra

Major Somnath Sharma

 

First Chief Election Commissioner

Sukumar Sen

 

First person to receive Magsaysay Award

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

  • First person chosen for Individual Satyagraha.

First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine

Hargovind Khurana

 

First Chinese traveller to visit India

Fahein

  • Visited India during the reign of Gupta emperor Chandragupta II

First person to receive Stalin Prize

Saifuddin Kitchlu

  • Jalliawala Bagh gathering 1919 was held against the arrest of Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlu and Dr. Satyapal.

The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

  • Served as Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet
  • Founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in 1951.

First person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics

Amartya Sen

  • For his contributions to welfare economics

First Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Justice Hirala J. Kania

 

First Indian Pilot

J.R.D. Tata (1929)

 


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