Introduction
Indian Men Personalities article presents the list of Indian Men Personalities who are prominently known for their achievements and for being the first females in their respective fields. Indian Men Personalities, is one of the important topics in the General Awareness section in many competitive exams such as IBPS, SSC, UPSC, RRB, RBI, SBI etc.
Personalities
The history of Indian Men is full of pioneers, who have broken gender barriers and worked hard for their rights and made progress in the field of politics, arts, science, law etc.
Below table contains the list of Indian Men Personalities
| Name | Achievement |
|---|---|
Rajendra Prasad |
First President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
First Prime Minister of India |
Chakravarti Rajgopalachari |
First Indian Governor General of the country |
Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
First Governor-General of independent India (1947–48) |
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa |
First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India |
Lord Lewis Mountbatten |
First Governor-General of independent India (1947–48) |
Sam HormusjiFramji Jamshedji Manekshaw(S.H.F.J. Manekshaw) |
First Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal |
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar |
First Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
First Vice President of India |
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel |
First home minister and also the first deputy prime minister |
Sir R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
An Indian lawyer, economist and politician who served as independent India's first finance minister from 1947 to 1949 |
V. Narahari Rao |
First Comptroller and Auditor General of India from 1948 to 1954 |
Dharamnath Prasad Kohli (D.P Kohli) |
Founder Director of the CBI, India's Central Investigation Agency. He held office from 1 April 1963 to 31 May 1968 |
Sir Osborne Arkell Smith |
First Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, a post he held from 1 April 1935 to 30 June 1937 |
Morarji Desai |
First Non-Congress Prime-Minister of India |
Warren Hastings |
First Governor General of Bengal |
Rakesh Sharma |
First Indian to go into space |
Satyendranath Tagore |
First Indian to join the Indian Civil Service |
Mihir Sen |
A long distance swimmer, best known for being the first Indian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958 |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
First Indian to won Raman-Magsaysay awardee |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
First Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
C. V. Raman |
First Indian to won the Nobel Prize in Physics |
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
First president of Indian National Congress |
Sukumar Sen |
An Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India, serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958 |
Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh |
First Indian Chairman in International Court. |
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
First Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna |
Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim |
First Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
First individual to be honored Bharat Ratna Awardee posthumously |
G. Sankara Kurup |
First winner of the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam Odakkuzhal |
Dr P Venugopal |
Head of the cardio thoracic centre in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), leads a team of doctors in carrying out the first successful heart transplant in the country |
Devi Ram |
First heart transplant patient of India |
Justice Rangnath Mishra |
First chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
Campaigned for Indian causes and was the first Indian Member of Parliament elected to the UK House of Commons |
Robert clive |
First one to get assigned to the post of Governor of Bengal |
Zakir Husain |
Muslim President of Indian Republic |
James Augustus Hicky |
An Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in Asia. |
Major Somnath Sharma |
First recipient of Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration |
Fa-hien |
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India |
P.V. Narasimha Rao |
India first lok Sabha member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes |
Sherpa Phu Dorji |
Indian to summit Mt. Everest without oxygen |
Sukumar Sen |
An Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India |
J.R.D.Tata |
First Indian Pilot |
Lt.Ram Charan |
First Indian to reach Antarctica |
Morarji Desai |
First India Prime Minister to resign from office |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
First President of India to die in office |
Nawang Gombu |
First Man to climb Mt.Everest twice |
Col.I.K.Bajaj |
First Indian to reach the South Pole |
Bhanu Athaiya |
First Indian recipient of Oscar Award |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
First American President to visit India |
Harold Mc Millon |
First British Prime Minister to visit India |
Ruskin Bond |
First Indian author to get Anderson Award |
Wilson Jones |
First Indian to win World Billiards Trophy |
Santosh George |
First Indian Space Tourist |
K.D. Jadhav |
Created history by winning a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki Capital of Finland. |
Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan |
First Formula One driver from India |
Viswanathan Anand |
India's first grand master in 1988 |
Virender Sehwag |
First Indian batsman to score a triple century in test cricket |
Khashaba Dada saheb Jadhav |
First individual athlete from India to win a medal at the Olympics |
Cottari Kanakaiya(CK) Nayudu |
First captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches. |
Sachin Tendulkar |
First player to score 10,000 runs in ODIs |