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| BHARAT RATNA | |
|---|---|
| 1st Indian to be awarded the Bharat Ratna | C Rajagopalachari |
| 1st Bharat Ratna Awardee to become the President of India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| 1st person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1st Scientist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna | CV Raman |
| 1st and only Industrialist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna | JRD Tata |
| LITERARY AWARDS | |
| 1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1st recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith award | G Sankara Kurup |
| 1st recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for English | RK Narayan |
| 1st person to receive Nobel prize for English literature | Rudyard Kipling |
| 1st Indian to receive the Booker prize | Salman Rushdie |
| 1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category) | Gobind Behari Lal |
| SPORTS AWARDS | |
| 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award | Viswanathan Anand |
| 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award | Salim Durrani |
| AWARDS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE | |
| 1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize | CV Raman |
| 1st person to receive Nobel prize for Physics | William K Roentgen |
| 1st woman to receive the Nobel prize | Madame Curie (1903) |
| GALLANTRY AWARDS | |
| 1st winner of Param Vir Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| 1st and only Air Force person to receive the Param Vir Chakra | Flying Officer Nirmaljit Shekhon |
| 1st and only woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra | Neerja Bhanot (1987) |
| FOREIGN AWARDS | |
| 1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan | Morarjee Desai |
| 1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award | Vinoba Bhave |
| FILM AWARDS | |
| 1st winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Devika Rani |
| 1st winner of Filmfare best actor award | Dilip Kumar |
| 1st winner of Filmfare best actress award | Meena Kumari |
| 1st Hindi film to win the National film Award | Mirza Ghalib (1954) |
| 1st film to win the Best Film Academy Award (Oscar) | Wings (1927-28) |
| OTHER AWARDS | |
| 1st recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding | U Thant (1965) |
| 1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development | Parliamentarians for Global Action(1986) |
| 1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Brlaug (Father of Green Revolution) | MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution in India ), 1987 |
| 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Individual) | Asghar Ali Engineer, 1997 |
| 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Organisation) | Quami Ekta Trust, 1997 |
| 1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (America's prestigious award for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity) | APJ Abdul Kalam, 2008 |
| 1st recipient of VK Krishna Menon Award (instituted by London based VK Krishna Menon Foundation) | Former CJI KG Balakrishnan |
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