GK: List of First in India
1. 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna
Award: Salim Durrani
2. 1st Indian recipient of International
Cricket Council's Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (also the first in the world): Rahul Dravid
3. 1st Indian recipient of Wisden Leading
Cricketer in the World: Virender Sehwag
4. 1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two
consecutive Olympic Games: Sushil Kumar
5. 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime
Achievement Award: Aparna Ghosh
6. 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award: Viswanathan Anand
7. 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna Award: Karnam Malleswari
8. India's first Grandmaster and also the
first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship: Vishwanathan Anand
9. The first Indian (also the first Asian) to
win the Wimbledon junior Singles title:
Ramanathan Krishnan (in 1954)
10. The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at
the Commonwealth Games: Ashish Kumar
11. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand
Slam in doubles: Leander Paes (2012)
12. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand
Slam in mixed doubles: Mahesh Bhupathi
(2006)
13. The first Indian to become a world champion
in billiards: Wilson Jones
14. The first Indian to swim across the English
Channel: Mihir Sen (1958)
15. The first Indian to win a gold medal at the
Olympic Games: Abhinav Bindra
16. The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title
(French Open mixed doubles title in 1997): Mahesh
Bhupathi
17. The first Indian to win an individual medal
at the Olympic Games: KD Jadhav
18. The first Indian to win the All England
Badminton Championship: Prakash Padukone
19. The first Indian to win the under 10 World
Chess Championship: P. Harikrishna
20. The first Indian to win the World Junior
Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by
clinching the Indonesia Open). First Indian woman to be ranked World No. 1: Saina Nehwal
21. The first Indian woman (also Asian woman)
to swim across the English Channel: Aarti
Saha (1959)
22. The first Indian woman to receive the
Grandmaster's title: Koneru Humpy
23. The first Indian woman to win a gold medal
at the Asian Games: Kamaljit Sandhu
24. The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam
title: Sania Mirza
25. The first Indian woman to win an individual
medal at the Olympic Games: Karnam Malleswari
26. The first Indian women athlete to
win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003): Anju Bobby George
27. The first woman in the world to swim the
seven seas: Bula Chaudhary
28. The youngest Indian to captain its test
cricket team: Mansoor Ali Khan
Pataudi
29. The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster
title: Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months
and 22 days)
Film
1. First Indian indigenous film: Raja Harishchandra (1913)
2. First Indian talkie (film with sound): Alam Ara (1931)
3. First Indian colour film: Kisan Kanya (1937)
4. First Indian Sanskrit film: Adi Shankarcharya (1983)
5. First Indian 3D film: Kutti Chetan (1984)
6. Director of Raja Harishchandra Movie: Dada Saheb Phalke
7. Director of Raja Alam Ara Movie: Ardeshar Irani
8. Director of Raja Mughal-e-azam Movie: K Asif
9. Director of Raja Mother India Movie: Mehboob Khan
10. Director of Raja Pather Panchali Movie: Satyajit Ray
11. Director of Raja Shatranj ke Khiladi Movie: Satyajit Ray
12. Director of Raja Do beegha zameen Movie: Bimal Roy
13. 1st winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani (1969)
14. 1st winner of Filmfare best actor award: Dilip Kumar
15. 1st winner of Filmfare best actress award: Meena Kumari
16. 1st Hindi film to win the National film
Award: Mirza Ghalib (1954)
17. 1st film to win the Best Film Academy Award
(Oscar): Wings (1927-28)
18. First Indian film to be nominated for Academy
Award (Oscar) in Best Foreign Language Film category: Mother India
19. First Indian to win an Academy Award
(Oscar) in the Competitive category: Bhanu
Athaiya in 1982 for Custume Design in Gandhi
20. Indian director who won the Lifetime
Achievement Academy Award: Satyajit Ray in 1992
21. Indian music director to win the Academy
Award for best original score: AR Rahman in 2009
for Slumdog Millionaire
22. Indian music director and lyricist to win
the Academy Award for best original song: AR
Rahman and Gulzar in 2009 for Slumdog Millionaire
23. First Indian to win the Academy Award for
best sound mixing: Resul Pookutty in
2009 for Slumdog Millionaire