| Name of the Field | Name of the Person |
| First President of Indian Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Prime Minister of free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| First Indian to win Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 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 Governor of Bengal | Lord Robert Clive |
| First Defense Minister of India | Baldev Singh Chokkar |
| First British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) |
| First Governor General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
| First British Governor General of Bengal | Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) |
| First British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| First Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First and last Indian to be Governor General of free India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| First Man who introduced printing press in India | James Hicky |
| First Law Minister of India | BR Ambedkar |
| First Commander-in-Chief of Free India | Kodandera Madappa Cariappa |
| First Indian to join I.C.S | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| First Indian man in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| First Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing full term | Morarji Desai |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Air Force | Subroto Mukherjee |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | Field Marshal Cariappa |
| First Chief of Army Staff | Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| First Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| First to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) | Surjo Kumar Chakroborty |
| First Field Marshal | Sam Manekshaw |
| First Muslim President of Indian Republic | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| First President of India who died while in office | Dr. Zakhir Hussain |
| First Chairperson of Lokpal of India | Pinaki Chandra Ghose |
| First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament | Charan Singh |
| First Field Marshal of India | Field Marshal S.H.F. Manekshaw |
| First Indian Male Recipient of Oscar Award | Satyajitray |
| First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| First Sikh President of India | Gyani Zail Singh |
| First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| First Indian to cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Indian to win Ramon Magasaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First Indian Space Tourist | Santosh George |
| First Person to receive Jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| Firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| First Vice-President of India | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| First Finance Minister of India | RK Shanmukham Chetty |
| First Education Minister | Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad |
| First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| First Indian Air Chief Marshal | Air Marshal S. Mukherjee |
| First Indian Naval Chief | Vice Admiral R.D. Katari |
| First Judge of the International Court of Justice | Dr. Nagendra Singh |
| First Person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| First man to have climbed Mount Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy | Wilson Jones |
| First Indian to reach Antarctica | Lt. Ram Charan |
| First person to get Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| First Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Har gobind Khurana |
| First Chinese Traveller to visit India | Fahein |
| First Person to receive Stalin Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| First Person to resign from the Central Cabinet | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
| The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen |
| First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | Justice Hirala J. Kania |
| First Indian Pilot | J.R.D. Tata (1929) |
| India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes | P.V.Narasimha Rao |
| First Test Tube Baby of India | Indira (Baby Harsha) |
| First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| First Indian to reach South Pole | Col IK Bajaj |
| First batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut | Mohammad Azharuddin |
| First batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match | Sachin Tendulkar |
