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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