| Title / Category | Answer |
| First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| First Prime Minister of India | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| First Vice President of India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| First Woman President of India | Pratibha Patil |
| First Woman Prime Minister of India | Indira Gandhi |
| First Governor-General of Independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First (and only) Indian Governor-General of Independent India | C. Rajagopalachari |
| First Chief Justice of India | Justice H. J. Kania |
| First Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| First Speaker of Lok Sabha | G. V. Mavalankar |
| First Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| First Woman Governor of an Indian State | Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh) |
| First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh) |
| First Woman Supreme Court Judge | Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Justice Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| First Woman IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi |
| First Woman IAS Officer | Anna Rajam Malhotra |
| First Indian Commander-in-Chief / Army Chief | General K. M. Cariappa |
| First Field Marshal of India | Sam Manekshaw |
| First Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) | General Bipin Rawat |
| First Indian Chief of Air Staff | Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee |
| First Indian Chief of Naval Staff | Vice Admiral R. D. Katari |
| First Param Vir Chakra Recipient | Major Somnath Sharma |
| First Woman Fighter Pilot | Avani Chaturvedi (commissioned alongside Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh) |
| First Woman Recipient of Ashoka Chakra | Neerja Bhanot |
| First Satellite | Aryabhata |
| First Nuclear Reactor | Apsara |
| First Indian in Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| First Woman of Indian Origin in Space | Kalpana Chawla |
| First Lunar Mission | Chandrayaan-1 |
| First Soft Landing on the Moon’s South Pole | Chandrayaan-3 (Vikram lander) |
| First Mars Mission | Mangalyaan / Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) |
| First Indian Nobel Laureate | Rabindranath Tagore (Literature) |
| First Indian Scientist to Win a Nobel Prize | C. V. Raman (Physics) |
| First Bharat Ratna Recipients | C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, and C. V. Raman |
| First Woman Bharat Ratna Recipient | Indira Gandhi |
| First Jnanpith Award Winner | G. Sankara Kurup |
| First Woman Jnanpith Award Winner | Ashapoorna Devi |
| First Indian to Win an Oscar | Bhanu Athaiya |
| First Indian Booker Prize Winner | Arundhati Roy |
| First Indian Silent Feature Film | Raja Harishchandra |
| First Indian Talkie Film | Alam Ara |
| First Individual Olympic Medalist | K. D. Jadhav (Wrestling) |
| First Individual Olympic Gold Medalist | Abhinav Bindra (Shooting) |
| First Woman Olympic Medalist | Karnam Malleswari (Weightlifting) |
| First Woman Olympic Silver Medalist | P. V. Sindhu (Badminton) |
| First Indian to Swim the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| First Woman to Swim the English Channel | Arati Saha |
| First Indian Woman to Climb Mount Everest | Bachendri Pal |
| First Indian Chess Grandmaster and Khel Ratna Recipient | Viswanathan Anand |
