First Recipients of Various Awards - for APPSC G1 & G2

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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