First Indian Female Personalities

First Indian Female Personalities




First Indian Female Name


to win an Olympic medal- Karnam Malleswari (Bronze)




Airline Pilot - Durba Banerjee



to go into space - Kalpana Chawla




to climb Mt. Everest - Bachendri Pal



to swim across English Channel - Arati Saha (also known as Arati Gupta)




Musician to get “Bharat Ratna” - M.S.Subbulakshmi



to win a Gold in Asian Games - Kamaljeet Sandhu




to win the Booker Prize - Arundhati Roy




to win WTA Title - Sania Mirza



to win Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa



to get Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi




to get Ashok Chakra - Nirja Bhanot



President - Mrs. Pratibha Patil



Prime Minister - Mrs. Indira Gandhi



Governor - Sarojini Naidu


Ruler (Delhi’s throne) - Razia Sultan


IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi


Chief Minister of a state - Sucheta Kripalani (the State was Uttar Pradesh)



Judge of the Supreme Court - Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi



President at UN General Assembly - Vijayalakshmi Pandit



Union Minister - Rajkumari Amrita Kaur


Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen



Miss World -Reita Faria


Note: There is a difference between First Woman President of Indian National Congress (INC) who is Annie Besant and First Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress (INC) who is Sarojini Naidu.