First In India : Female Personalities

1. The first woman president of India — Smt. Pratibha Patil
2. The first lady to become "Miss World" — Rita Faria
3 The first woman judge in Supreme Court — Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
4. The first woman Ambassador — Miss C.B. Muthamma
5. The first woman Governor of a State in free India — Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (1925)
6. The first woman Prime Minister — Mrs. Indira Gandhi
7. The first woman to climb Mount Everest — Bachhendri Pal
8. The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice — Santosh Yadav
9. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress — Mrs. Annie Besant
10. The first woman chief justice of a High Court — Mrs. Leela Seth
11. The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force — Harita Kaur Dayal
12. The first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly — Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
13. The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State — Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
14. The first woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission — Roze Millian Bethew
15. The first woman Director General of Police (DGP) — Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
16. The first woman Lieutenant General — Puneeta Arora
17. The first woman Air Vice Marshal — P. Bandopadhyaya
18. The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines — Sushma Chawla
19. The first woman I.P.S. Officer — Mrs. Kiran Bedi
20. The first and the last Muslim woman ruler of Delhi — Razia Sultan
21. The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra — Nirja Bhanot
22. The first woman to cross English Channel — Aarti Saha
23. The first woman to receive Nobel Prize — Mother Teresa
24. The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna — Mrs. Indira Gandhi
25. The First woman to get Ashok Chakra — Nirja Mishra
26. The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award — Ashapurna Devi
27. First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel — Miss Arati Saha (now Mrs. Arati Gupta)
28. First Indian woman to win WTA Title — Sania Mirza
29. First Indian woman Airline Pilot — Durga Banerjee
30. First Indian woman to win a Gold Medal in Asian Games — Kamaljeet Sandhu
31. First Indian woman to win the Booker Prize — Arundhati Roy
32. First Indian woman to go into space — Kalpana Chawla
33. First Indian Woman Minister of Indian Railways — Mamta Banerjee