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1) President—Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2) Prime-Minister—Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3) Governor-General of Independent
India—Lord Lewis Mountbatten
4) Indian Governor-General of Independent
India—Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
5) Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India
—General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
6) Field Marshall—General S. H. F. J.
Manekshaw
7) Speaker of Loksabha—Shri G.V. Mavalankar
(15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
8) Vice-President—Dr. Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan
9) Home Minister—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
10) Finance Minister of India—R. K.
Shanmukham Chetty
11) Auditor General of India—V. Narahari
Rao
12) Director of CBI— DP Kohli
13) National Security Adviser— Brijesh
Mishra
14) Governor of RBI— Sir Osborne Smith
15) Non-Congress Prime-Minister— Morarji
Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
16) British Governor-General of
Bengal—Warren-Hastings
17) Space traveller—S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
18) Civil Servant—Satendra Nath Tagore
19) Woman IAS Officer—Anna Ranjan George,
1950
20) Swimmer who crossed over the English
channel by swimming—Mihir Sen
21) Woman to swim across the English
Channel—Arati Saha, 1959
22) Raman-Magsaysay awardee—Acharya Vinoba
Bhave
23) Nobel prize winner—Rabindra Nath Tagore
24) Nobel Prize in Physics—C. V. Raman in 1930
25) President of National Congress—Wyomesh
Chand Banerjee
26) Chairman of Lok Sabha—G. B. Mavlankar
27) First Woman Chief Minister—Sucheta
Kriplani
28) Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha—Smt. Meira
Kumar, 2009
29) Chief Election Commissioner—Sukumar Sen
30) Indian Chairman in International
Court—Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
31) Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna—Khan
Abdul Gaffar Khan
32) Leader of the Indian Antarctica
Mission—Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
33) Chief Justice of Supreme Court—Justice
Hiralal J. Kaniya
34) Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’—Dr.
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C. B. Raman
35) Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’—
Indira Gandhi
36) Commander of the Order of Arts and
Letters— Mrinal Sen
37) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter—Sivaji
Ganeshan
38) Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee—Lal
Bahadur Shastri
39) Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth
Purskar—G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
40) Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth
Purskar—Ashapurna Devi, 1976
41) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award
Winner—Amrita Pritam, 1956
42) Woman Honours Graduate—Kamini Roy
43) Woman Director General of
Police—Kanchan C Bhattacharya
44) Successful Surgeon who transplanted
heart—Dr. P. Venugopal
45) Woman to receive Nobel Prize— Mother
Teresa
46) Woman Governor—Sarojini Naidu
47) Licensed Pilot— J R D Tata
48) Woman Air Pilot—Durba Banerjee
49) Woman Teacher—Savitribai Phule
50) Successful heart transplanted
person—Devi Ram (1994)
51) President of National Human Rights
Commission—Justice Rangnath Mishra
52) Hindi Literature person-awarded
Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar—Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
53) Indian who won the World Billiard
award—Wilson Jans
54) Indian who won the Grammy award—Pt.
Ravi Shankar
55) Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi
in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)Dada Bhai Naoroji
56) Indian member in British House of
Commons— Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
56) First President of Indian Science
Congress—Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
57) Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8
times—Sherpa-Augarita
58) Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas
Samman’—Ramvilas Sharma
59) Indian Managing Director of World
Bank—Gautam Kazi
60) Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’—C. K.
Naidu
61) Actress to win Padma Shri Award—Nargis
Dutt, 1958
62) Indian players played Davis Cup—M.
Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
63) Tennis Grandslam title winner—Mahesh
Bhupati
64) Indian player who played the test
cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
65) Scientist elected for Lok Sabha—Dr.
Meghnad Saha
66) Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla
award—Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
67) Literature who was awarded Murti Devi
Purskar—C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
68) Person, who became High Commission in
Great Britain—V. K. Krishna-Menon
69) Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace
Prize—Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
70) First Indian who contested the election
for British Parliament—Lal Mohan Ghose
71) Woman Graduates—Kadambini Ganguly and
Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
72) Woman Chief Justice of High Court—Leila
Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
73) An Indian, appointed the judge of High
Court, during the British period—Ram Prasad Ram
74) Indian member of Viceroy Executive
Council—Sir. S. P. SinhaMorarji Desai
75) Leanin Peace Prize— Saifuddin Kitchlew
76) Chairman of Finance Commission—K. C.
Niogi
77) Woman Doctorate of Science—Asima
Chatterjee (1944)
78) Woman IPS—Kiran Bedi
79) Woman Supreme Court judge—Kumari
Fathima Beevi
80) Indian member of American
Congress—Deleep Singh
81) Editor of Time Magazine—Bobby Ghosh
82) Director of CBI becoming Governor—Ashwani
Kumar
83) Person to reach the North Pole—Squadron
Leader Sanjay Thapar
84) Person to reach the South Pole—Col
Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
85) Nishan-e-Pakistan Award—Morarji Desai,
1990
86) Magsaysay Award—Vinoba Bhave, 1958
Sushmita Sen
87) Miss World—Reita Faria in 1966
88) Miss Asia Pacific—Zeenat Aman in 1970
89) Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen in 1994
90) Miss Earth—Nicole Faria in 2010
91) Place to get electricity—Darjeeling in
1897
92) Sound film—Alam Ara (1931) directed by
Ardeshir Irani
93) Colour film—Kisan Kanya (1937),
directed by Moti B. Gidvani
94) Oscar winner—Bhanu Athaiya for Best
Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.
95) Dadasaheb Phalke Award—Devika Rani in
1969
96) Chevalier of the Order of Arts and
Letters—Sivaji Ganesan
97) Test-tube baby—Durga Agarwal, born 1978
98) Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette
started in 1760Tenzing Norgay
99) First Lady Doctor—Anandibai Joshi
100) Satellite—Aryabhata, launched on 19
April 1975
101) Man to climb Mt Everest—Tenzing Norgay
102) Man to climb Mt Everest without
oxygen—Phu Dorjee, 1984
103) Woman to climb Mt everest—Bachendri
Pal
104) District to achieve 100% literacy
rate—Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
105) Captain in Tests—C. K. Nayudu for the
1932 tour of England
106) ODI captain—Ajit Wadekar
107) Bowler who made hat-trick in Test
Cricket—Harbhajan Singh
108) Batsman who made 300 runs in test
Cricket—Virendra Sehwag
109) First Marshal of Indian Air
Force—Arjan Singh
110) Individual Medal in Olympic games—KD
Jadhav
111) Grandmaster— Viswanathan Anad
112) Woman Grandmaster—Koneru Humpy
113) First Indian who individually won the
Gold medal in Olympic games—Abhinav Bindra
114) First Indian who won the Bronze medal
in Boxing in Olympic games—Vijendra Kumar
115) Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge—Srinivasa Ramanujan
116) Fellow of the Royal Society—Ardaseer
Cursetjee
117) Post Office- Kolkata(1727)
118) University- Nalanda University
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