First in India Female Personalities

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Reeta Farhia

● Prime-Minister—Indira Gandhi

● Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel through Swimming—Arti Shah

● Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.)

● I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi

● President of National Congress—Anne Besant

● Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—Rose-William Baithu

● Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Teresa (for peace)

● Awardee of Miss World—Reeta Farhia

● Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen

● Mayor—Tara Charian (Madras-1957)

● Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

● Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

● Parliamentrian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938)

● Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahaib Fatima Bibi

● Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh)

● Session Judge of the Counting—Anna Chandi (Kerala edushareworld)

● Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt. Everest—Bacchendri Pal

● Awardee of Norman Barlog Prize—Dr. Amrita Patil

● Literature who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award—Amrita Pritam (1956)

● Honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’—Indira Gandhi

● Awardee of Lenin peace award—Aruna Asaf Ali

● Awardee of Jananpith Purshkar—Asha Purna Devi (1976)

● Woman who reached ‘Antarctica’—Mahel Musa (1977)

● Woman who reached the North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993)(edushareworld)

● Woman who travelled All round the world—Ujjawala Patil (1988) by Boat

● Chief Engineer—P. K. Tresia Naguli

● Pilot—Flying Officer Sushma Mukhopaddhyaya

● Air Lines Pilot—Capt. Durga Banerjee

● Commander of Boeing 737 Plane—Capt. Saudamini Deshmukh

● Paratrooper of Indian Air Force—Geeta Ghosh

● I. A. S.—Auna George Malhotra

● First television news broadcaster—Pratima Puri

● Participated in mustic programme of U.N.O.—M. S. Subbuluxmi (1966)

● Woman participated in Olympic games—Meri Lila Row (1952)

● Woman who won the medal in Olympic games—Malleshwari (weight lifting—Sydney) edushareworld

● Woman who won the Gold Medal in Asian games—Kamaljeet Sidhu (1970, 400 metre)

● Woman who won the medal in Commonwealth games—Anil Ghiya and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman 

Doubles Badminton, 1978)

● Medal winner in International Athletic Championship—Anju B. George (2003 Paris)

● Grandmaster winner in Chess—Bhagiya Sri Thispey (1988)

● One hundred wicket taker in International Cricket—Indulgi (1986)

● Awardee of Arjun Purskar—N. Lamsden (Hockey, 1961)

● Woman who made hat-trick in football—Youlandade-Suza (1978)

● Awardee of Ashok Chakra—Neerja Bhanot (Posthumously)

● Awardee of Sena Medal—Vimla Devi (1988)

● Degree of graduation—Kadambni Ganguly (Bose) and Chandramukhi Bose (Kolkata University, 

1883)

● Awardee of B. E. degree—Ella-Majumdar (1951)
● M.B.B.S. Degree awardee—Vidhumuti Bose and Virginia Mitter (Kolkata Medical College)

● First Surgeon—Dr. Prema Mukherjee edushareworld

● Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank—K. J. Udesi (2003)
● Chairman of NABARD—Ranjana Kumar

● D. I. G. (Police)—Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya

● Lieutenant General—Punita Arora

● Chairman of Indian Air lines—Shushma Chawla

● Barrister—Cornonia Sorabji (Allahabad High Court-1923)

● Advocate—Regina Guha

● Ambassador—Vijayalaxmi Pandit (U.S.S.R.-1947)

● Woman who crossed over Gibralter Strait by Swimming—Arati Pradhan

● World Record in Powerlifting—Sumita Laha (1989)

● Represented the nation in all three games (Cricket, Hockey and Basketball)—Shrin Khushro Kiyasa

● First Commercial test Pilot of the world—Capt. Surun Darsi and Capt. Rose Lopar

● Pilot of Indian Air Force—Harita Daoel

● Twice scaled the Mt. Everest—Santosh Yadav

● Ramon Magsaysay Prize awardee—Kiran Bedi

● Heroin awarded Dada Sahaib Phalke Prize—Devika Rani Rorik

● Youngest woman who scaled the Mt. Everest twice—Decky Dolma edushareworld

● Scientist who was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award—Ashima Chatterjee

● Foreign Secretary—Chokila Ayyar

● First Chief Secretary of the Country—Nirmla Buch

● First Space traveller—Kalpana Chawla

● Joint Director of C.B.I.—Archana Sunder Lingam

● Winner of Murti Devi Prize—Pratibha Rai

● Woman Contested the Presidential election—Capt. Laxmi Sahgal

● Air Vice-Marshal and Air-Marshal in Indian Air Force—P. Bondyopaddhyay

● Non-military Police Advisor in U.N.O.—Kiran Bedi

● Revenue Secretary—Vinita Rai

● Referee in Boxing—Rajia Sabnam

● First woman of Indian origin who stayed for the longest time in space—Sunita William