| First President of United States of America |
George Washington |
| First President of the Republic of China |
Dr Sun Yat Sen (1912) |
| First Prime Minister of Great Britain |
Robert Walpole (1715) |
| Pakistan’s first Governor-General |
Mohammed Ali Jinnah |
| First Ethnic-Indian Prime Minister of Fiji |
Mahendra Choudhary |
| First American President to visit India |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
| First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India |
Nikolai Bulganin |
| First European invader of Indian soil |
Alexander The Great |
| First man to go into space |
Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) |
| First man to walk in space |
Alexey Leonov (Russia) |
| First space tourist |
Dennis Tito (USA) |
| First man to set foot on the Moon |
Neil Armstrong (USA) |
| First man to fly an aeroplane |
Wright Brothers |
| First man to reach North pole |
Robert Peary |
| First man to reach South pole |
Roald Amundsen |
| First man to climb Mount Everest |
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953) |
| First man to climb Mount Everest twice |
Nawang Gombu (1965) |
| First blind man to scale Mount Everest |
Erik Weihenmayer (25th May, 2001) |
| First person to sail around the world |
Ferdinand Magellan |
| First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibralter |
Taranath Shenoy (India) |
| First European to visit China |
Marco Polo |
| First man to draw the map of Earth |
Anexemander |
| First man to compile encyclopaedia |
Aspheosis (Athens) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature |
Sully Prudhomme (France) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace |
Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (France) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics |
WK Roentgen (Germany) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry |
Jacobus H Van’t Hoft (Holland) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine |
AE Von Behring (Germany) |
| First man to win Nobel Prize for Economics |
Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Tinbergen (Holland) |
| First and only black man ever to win singles Wimbledon Trophy |
Arthur Ashe (USA) |
| First Asian to head the International Cricket Council |
Jagmohan Dalmiya |
| First man to hit double century in One Day International Match |
Sachin Tendulkar (India) |
