First in india

• Governor-General of Independent India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten
• Indian Governor-General of Independent India—Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
• Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
... • Speaker of loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
• President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli RadhakrishnanSardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• Finance Minister of India—R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
• Auditor General of India—V. Narahari Rao
• Director of CBI— DP Kohli
• National Security Adviser— Brijesh Mishra
• Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne Smith.
• British Governor-General of Bengal—Warren-Hastings
• Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
• Woman IAS—Anna Ranjan George, 1950
• Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming—Mihir Sen
• Woman to swim across the English Channel—Arati Saha, 1959
• Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Nobel prize winner—Rabindra Nath TagoreRabindra
• Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
• First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani
• Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
• Indian Chairman in International Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
• Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal Bahadur Shastri