| A | B |
| First American President to visit India | Dwight David Eisenhower |
| First American Astronaut | John Glenn |
| First American Woman astronaut | Sally K.Ride,June 1983 |
| First American in Space | Alan Shepard,1962 |
| First American woman to scale Mt.Everest | Stacy Allison |
| First British prime minister to visit India | Harold Macmillan |
| First British woman ambassador | Anne Warbarton |
| First President of the USA | George Washington |
| First man to sail round the world | Fardinand Magellan |
| First english navigator circumference the world | Francis Drake |
| First secretary general of the United Nation | Trygve Lie of Norway |
| First west German Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| First prime minister of the UK | Sir Robert Walpole |
| First prime minister of the Israel | David BenGurion,1948-53 |
| First Governor General of Pakistan | Md Ali Jinnah |
| First European to visit China | Marco Polo |
| First Chairman of central Government of people's republic of China | Mao Tsetung |
| First President of Chinese republic | Sun Yatsen |
| First Russian to visit India | Afanasy Nikitin |
| First Russian prime minister to visit India | Nikolai A. Bulganin |
| First man cosmonaut in space | Yuri Gagarin of the USSR |
| First Woman cosmonaut in space | Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR |
| First man to walk in space | Lt.Col.Alexei Leonov of the USSR |
| First person to discover radioactivity | Marie Curie of Poland |
| First woman to swim the English Channel | Gertrude Ederle of the USA |
| First longest reigning king | Emperor Hirohito of Japan |
| First person to calculate the circumference of the earth | Eratosthenes(ancient Greece) |
| First nonIndian received the Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| First person accomplished nuclear fission | Otto Hahn of Germany |
| First recipent of the World Food Prize | Dr.M.S. Swaminathan |
| First person to scale all the world 's 14 peaks above 8000 metres | Reinhold Messner of Italy |
| First Chinese pilgrims to visit India | Fahien |
| First European invader on India | Alexender the Great |
| First man to reach the South pole | Ronald Amudsen of Noeway on December 4,1911 |
| First man to reach the north pole by overland journey | Robert E.Peary on 6th April 1909 |
| First test tube born baby | Louise Joy brown on July 25,1978 |
| First man to scale Mt.Everest | Sherpa Tenzing Norkay of India and Edmund Hillary of New Zeland in 1953 |
| First man to scale Mt.Everest twice | Nawang Gombu |
| First woman to scale Mt. Everest | Mrs.Junko Tabei of Japan May 16,1975 |
| First woman to reach north pole | Ann Bancroft of the USA |
| First man to set foot on moon | Neil Armstrong of the USA |
| First woman prime minister of a Muslim country | Benazir Bhutto of Oakistan |
| First woman prime minister of the UK | Mrs.Margaret Thacher,1979 |
| First woman to win the Magsaysay award | M.S. Shubhalakshmi,1974 |
| First woman to win the Templeton award | Mother Teresa |
| First woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature | Perl S. Buck |
