List of First Famous Male Personalities in India : Indian General Knowledge.
| S. No. | Position / Achievement / Portfolio | Name of the First Person (Male) in India |
| 1 | First Governor of Bengal | Robert Clive Clive (1757-60) |
| 2 | Last Governor of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1772-74) |
| 3 | First Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings (1774-85) |
| 4 | First Governor General of India | Lord William Bentic (1833-35) |
| 5 | Last Governor General and First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning (1856-1862) |
| 6 | First President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| 7 | First Indian Governor General of Independent India | C. Rajgopalachari (21 June, 1948 to 25 Jan, 1950) |
| 8 | First Indian to Pass ICS | Surendra Nath Banerjee |
| 9 | First Indian I.C.S. Officer | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| 10 | First Governor General of India (After Independence) | Lord Louis Mountbatten (15 Aug, 1947 to 20 June, 1948) |
| 11 | First Indian Cosmonaut (to go into space) | Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma |
| 12 | First Temporary President of the Constituent Assembly | Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha |
| 13 | First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | General K.M. Cariappa |
| 14 | First Indian Nobel Laureate | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 15 | First Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| 16 | First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| 17 | First Field Marshal | General S.F.J. Manekshaw |
| 18 | The President of Constituent Assembly | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 19 | First Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| 20 | First Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award | G. Shankar Kurup |
| 21 | First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 22 | First Indian to win Palk-Strait Ocean Swimming Contest | Baidyanath Nath |
| 23 | First Speaker of Lok Sabha | G.V. Mavlankar (1952-57) |
| 24 | First Person to make printing press popular in India | James Hicky |
| 25 | First Education Minister of Independent India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azaad |
| 26 | First President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 27 | First Prime Minister of Independent India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 28 | First Home Minister of Independent India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| 29 | First Vice-President of Independent India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| 30 | First Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst |
| 31 | First Indian Air Chief of India | Air Marshal S. Mukherjee |
| 32 | First Chief of Army Staff | General M. Rajendra Singh |
| 33 | First Chief of Naval Staff of India | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| 34 | First Large Scale Atomic Reactor of India | Apsara (1956) |
| 35 | First Person to get Paramvir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| 36 | First Atomic Submarine of India | I.N.S. Chakra |
| 37 | First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize | C.V. Raman (Physics) |
| 38 | First Indian Submarine | I.N.S. Cauvery |
| 39 | First Scientist of Indian origin to get Nobel Prize in the field of Medical Science | Dr. Hargovind Khurana |
| 40 | First Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship | I.N.S. Vikrant |
| 41 | First Chinese Pilgrim to Visit India | Fa-Hien |
| 42 | First Medium Range Missile | Agni |
| 43 | First E-Business News Paper of India | Financial Express |
| 44 | First Scientist of India Origin to win Nobel Prize in Physics | Subrahmanium Chandrashekhar |
| 45 | First Indian Missile | Prithvi |
| 46 | First Indian to Win Stalin Award | Saiffudin Kichlu |
| 47 | Indian’s First Nuclear Centre | Tarapur |
| 48 | First Indian to win Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958) |
| 49 | India’s First Open University | Andhra Pradesh Open University |
| 50 | India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes | P.V. Narasimha Rao |
| 51 | India’s first minister to resign from Union Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1950) |
| 52 | First British to Visit India | Hawkins |
| 53 | First Asian Games Organised | Delhi (1951) |
| 54 | India’s first Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| 55 | First Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayab Ji |
| 56 | First Chief Justice of India | Justice Hiralal J. Kania |
| 57 | First person to submit the proposal of Indian Independence in a Congress Session | Hasrat Mohani |
| 58 | India’s First University | Nalanda University |
| 59 | First Indian to climb Mt. Everest without Oxygen cylinder | Sherpa Phu Dorji |
| 60 | First foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| 61 | First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics | Dr. Amartya Sen |
| 62 | First Army Institute of Information Technology Founded | Hyderabad |
| 63 | First Test Tube Baby of India | Indira (Baby Harsha) |
| 64 | First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| 65 | First Indian to Reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan (1960) |
| 66 | First Post Office opened in India | Kolkata (1727) |
| 67 | First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| 68 | First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office | Mararji Desai |
| 69 | First Indian Prime Minister to lose an Election | Indira Gandhi |
| 70 | First President of India to die in office | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| 71 | First Man to climb Mt. Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| 72 | First Indian to reach the South Pole | Col. LK Bajaj |
| 73 | First Indian recipient of ‘Oscar Award’ | Bhanu Athaiya |
| 74 | First American President to Visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 75 | First British Prime Minister to Visit India | Harold Macmillan |
| 76 | First Indian author to get Anderson Award | Ruskin Bond |
| 77 | First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy | Wilson Jones |
| 78 | First Indian Space Tourist | Santhosh George |
