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First Person in India - Female

 


First Person in India - Female by Dr. Gaurav Garg

● First woman pilot of Indian Navy - Shivangi Hari Bhushan Singh [1] , Born - Muzaffarpur, Bihar.

● India's first female military diplomat - Anjali Singh [2] .

● The first Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft solo - IAF officer Avani

Chaturvedi [3] .

● First Indian to win a Badminton World Championships gold - P. V.

Sindhu [4] , Born - Hyderabad.

● First woman president of any State Cricket Association in India -

Rupa Gurunath [5] (Tamil Nadu).

● The world’s first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean and

pacific ocean in a light sport aircraft (LSA) - Aarohi Pandit [6] .

● First Civil Servant and IPS officer to Scale 7 Summits’ challenge

and also to reach the South Pole - Aparna Kumar [7] .

● First Indian Woman Flight Engineer to be inducted by the Indian

Air Force - Hina Jaiswal [8] .

● First woman to head the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) -

Chandrima Shaha [9] .

● First woman president of Astronomical Society of India - Dr. G. C.

Anupama .

● First woman Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia - Najma Akhtar .

● First female to be appointed as ICC Match Referee - GS Lakshmi .

● First woman to perform bike stunts, alongside her male teammates

as part of daredevils on Republic Day - Captain Shikha Surabhi [10] .

● First woman to occupy IMF chief economist post - Gita Gopinath [11] .

● First Indian shooter to win gold at Youth Olympics - Manu Bhaker [12] .

● India’s First Woman President - Pratibha Patil .

● India’s First Woman Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi .

● India’s First Woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi [14] .

● First Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya [13] .

● First Woman Chief Minister of State - Sucheta Kripalani [15] (Uttar Pradesh).

● First Woman Union Minister - Rajkumari Amrita Kaur (Ministry of Health). 

● First Woman Governor - Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh). 

● First Woman President of INC - Annie Besant . 

● First Indian Woman President of INC - Sarojini Naidu . 

● First Woman Judge of the Supreme Court - Fatima Beevi [16] . 

● First Woman to get Ashok Chakra - Neerja Bhanot [17] . 

● First Indian Woman Ambassador at UN - Vijayalakshmi Pandit [18] . 

● First Indian Woman to get a Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa . 

● First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel - Arati Saha [19] . 

● First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest - Bachendri Pal [20] . 

● First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest twice - Santhosh Yadhav . 

● First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest twice in 5 days - Anshu 

Jamsenpa (Arunachal Pradesh). 

● First Indian Woman to become Miss World - Dr. Rita Faria [21] . 

● Youngest girl in India to climb Everest - Malavath Poorna on 25 May 

2014 at the age of 13. 

● First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen . 

● First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi . 

● First Indian Woman to get Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi 

(‘Prothom Protishrut’, she was Bengali writer). 

● First Indian Woman to win WTA Title - Sania Mirza . 

● First pilot of Indian Airlines in 1956 and the first Indian woman commercial pilot - Durba Banerjee . 

● First Indian woman to fly a commercial aircraft - Sarla Thakral . 

● First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games - Kamaljeet Sandhu (won gold medal at 

1970 Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race). 

● First Indian Booker Prize winner - Arundhati Roy [22] for her novel “ The God of Small 

Things ” in 1997. 

● First Indian Woman to go to space - Kalpana Chawla (Space Shuttle Columbia). 

● First winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award – Devika Rani in 1969 (Dadasaheb Phalke 

directed the first Indian film ‘Raja Harishchandra’). 

● First female Jawan in the Army - Shanti Tigga .

● First Woman Chief Minister to die in Office - Jayalalithaa [24] 

(AIADMK party) (first male was ‘Gopinath Bordoloi’ he was CM of 

Assam, Guwahati Airport is named after him). 

● First Woman Indian Prime Minister to die in Office - Indira Gandhi . 

● Anandi Gopal Joshi [23] is referred to as the first lady doctor of India . 

● First women's court in India - Malda, West Bengal . 

● First Women Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu , 

1883. 

● First woman honours graduate - Kamini Roy [25] , 1886. 

● India's first female train driver in 1988 - Surekha Yadav [26] . 

● First female Chairperson of State Bank of India - Arundhati 

Bhattacharya . 

● First female advocate in India - Cornelia Sorabjee (also first indian 

woman to study at Oxford University). 

● First female Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh) - Leila 

Seth , 1991. 

● First female Air Vice Marshal - Padmavathy Bandopadhyay [28] . 

● First female High Court Judge - Anna Chandy . 

● First woman speaker of the Lok Sabha - Meira Kumar [30] . 

● First women Chess Grandmaster - Koneru Humpy [29] . 

● First woman to Cross Gobi Desert - Sucheta Kadethankar . 

● First woman to reach the final of an Olympic event - P T Usha (She came 4th in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, also 

known as ‘Payyoli Express’). 

● First woman to become IAS officer in Independent India - Anna Rajam Malhotra [31] . 

● First woman Indian Administrative Services officer of British India - 

Isha Basant Joshi [32] . 

● First woman to win Ramon Magsaysay Award - Mother Teresa . 

● First woman Managing director of LIC of India - Usha Sangwan [34] . 

● First woman appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser - 

Kiran Bedi . 

● First and the only Indian golfer to participate in Asian Youth Games (2013), Youth Olympic Games (2014), Asian 

Games (2014) and Olympic Games (2016) - Aditi Ashok [33] .

● First female Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha - Violet Alva [35] . 

● First female Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha - V.S. Ramadevi [36] . 

● First female Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha - Snehlata 

Shrivastava . 

● First female Home Minister of a state - Sabitha Indra Reddy , Andhra 

Pradesh. 

● First women Railway Minister of India - Mamata Banerjee . 

● First female finance Minister of State Government in India - Dr 

Upinderjit Kaur [38] , in Punjab Govt. 

● Fully blind IFS officer - Beno Zephine N L . 

● Fully blind IAS officer – Pranjal Patil [37] . 

● First Indian Athlete ever to win a Medal in World Championships in 

Athletics - Anju Bobby George [39] , She Won the Bronze Medal in Long 

Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. 

● Individual Medal Woman at Olympics - Bronze by Karnam 

Malleswari . 

● First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics - Nora Polley 

in the 1924 Summer Olympics. 

● First female to represent Independent India at the Summer Olympics - Nilima Ghose in the 1952 Summer 

Olympics. 

● First woman to compete for India in the Winter Olympic Games - Shailaja Kumar in the 1988 Winter Olympics. 

● First female flag bearer at the Summer Olympics - Shiny Abraham in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 

● First female flag bearer at the Winter Olympics - Neha Ahuja in the 2006 Winter Olympics. 

● First Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics - Dipa Karmakar at 2016 Summer Olympics. 

● India's first Merchant Navy captain - Radhika Menon [40] (2012). 

● India’s first woman maritime engineer - Sonali Banerjee [41] . 

● First woman teacher in India - Savitribai Phule . 

● First Woman to hold a Union Foreign Minister's post - Sushma Swaraj . 

● First Woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian 

Bethew . 

● First Woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora [42] . 

● First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla [43] .

● First Indian woman who reached Antarctica - Mahel Moos [44] . 

● First Indian woman who became an individual member of the 

International Olympic Committee - Nita Ambani . 

● First Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peaks 

- Premlata Agrawal [45] . 

● First woman amputee (no hand and legs) to scale Everest - Arunima 

Sinha . 

● First Indian woman scientist selected as fellow in London's Royal 

Society - Gagandeep Kang [46] . 

● First women defense Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman (Indira 

Gandhi was also defence minister but she was not full time as she was 

Prime Minister). 

● First woman Finance Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman . 

● First woman DIG in Indian Coast Guard - Nupur Kulshrestha [48] . 

● First woman cadet to join the Indian Army - Priya Jhingan [47] . 

● First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of WHO - Dr. Soumya Swaminathan . 

● First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ prize - Divya Ajith Kumar . 

● First person to win an international bronze medal in skiing - Aanchal Thakur [49] . 

● First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal - P. V. Sindhu .


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