Name the First woman pilot of Indian Navy

Shivangi Hari Bhushan Singh

Born - Muzaffarpur, Bihar

Who has become India's first female military diplomat?

Anjali Singh

IAF officer Avani Chaturvedi became first Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft solo

First Indian to win a Badminton World Championships gold?

P. V. Sindhu

Who was appointed as the first woman president of any State Cricket Association in India?

Rupa Gurunath

The world’s first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean and pacific ocean in a light sport aircraft (LSA)?

Aarohi Pandit

First Civil Servant and IPS officer to Scale 7 Summits’ challenge and also to reach South Pole?

Aparna Kumar

First Indian Woman Flight Engineer to be inducted by the Indian Air Force ?

Hina Jaiswal

The first woman to head the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)?

Chandrima Shaha

First woman president of Astronomical Society of India

Dr. G. C. Anupama

Who has become the first woman Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia?

Najma Akhtar

Who has become the first female to be appointed as ICC Match Referee?

GS Lakshmi

First woman to perform bike stunts, alongside her male teammates as part of daredevils on Republic Day?

Captain Shikha Surabhi

First woman to occupy the IMF chief economist post

Gita Gopinath

First Indian shooter to win gold at Youth Olympics ?

Manu Bhaker

India’s First Woman President - Pratibha Patil

India’s First Woman Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi

India’s First Woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi

First Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

First Woman Chief Minister of State - Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh)

First Woman Union Minister - Rajkumari Amrita Kaur (Ministry of Health)

First Woman Governor: Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh)

First Woman President of INC - Annie Besant

First Indian Woman President of INC - Sarojini Naidu

First Woman Judge of Supreme Court - Fatima Beevi

First Woman to get Ashok Chakra - Neerja Bhanot

First Indian Woman Ambassador at UN - Vijalakshmi Pandit

First Indian Woman to get Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa

First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel - Arati Saha

First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest - Bachendri Pal

First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest twice - Santhosh Yadhav

First Indian Woman to become Miss World - Rita Faria

Youngest girl in India to climb Everest - Malavath Poorna on 25 May 2014 at the age of 13

First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe – Sushmita Sen

First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi

First Indian Woman to get Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi (Prothom Protishrut)

First Indian Woman to win WTA Title - Sania Mirza

First pilot of Indian Airlines in 1956 and the first Indian woman commercial pilot - DurbaBanerjee

(Sarla Thakral was the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft)

First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian Games - Kamaljeet Sandhu (won gold medal at 1970 Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race)

First Indian Booker Prize winner - Arundhati Roy for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997

First Indian Woman to go to space - Kalpana Chawla

(Space Shuttle Columbia)

First winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award –

Devika Rani in 1969

First female Jawan in the Army - Shanti Tigga

First Woman Chief Minister to die in Office - Jayalalithaa

First Woman Indian Prime Minister to die in Office - Indira Gandhi

Anandi Gopal Joshi is referred to as the first lady doctor of India

First women's court in India: Malda, West Bengal

First Women Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

First woman honours graduate: Kamini Roy, 1886

India's first female train driver in 1988 - Surekha Yadav

First female Chairperson of State Bank of India - Arundhati Bhattacharya

Cornelia Sorabjee - First female advocate in India

First female Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991

First female Air Vice Marshal - Padmavathy Bandopadhyay

First female High Court Judge - Anna Chandy

First women speaker of the Lok Sabha - Meira Kumar

First women Chess Grandmaster - Koneru Humpy

First women to Cross Gobi Desert - Sucheta Kadethankar

First women to reach the final of an Olympic event - P T Usha

First women to become IAS officer - Anna Rajam Malhotra

(Isha Basant Joshi was the first woman Indian Administrative Services officer of British India)

First women to win Ramon Magsaysay Award - Mother Teresa

• First woman Managing director of LIC of India : Usha Sangwan

• First woman appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser: Kiran Bedi

• First and the only Indian golfer to participate in Asian Youth Games (2013), Youth Olympic Games (2014), Asian Games (2014) and Olympic Games (2016): Aditi Ashok

First female Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha - Violet Alva

First female Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha - V.S. Ramadevi

First female Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha - Snehlata Shrivastava

First female Home Minister of a state: Sabitha Indra Reddy, Andhra Pradesh

• First women Railway Minister of India - Mamata Banerjee

• First female finance Minister of State Government in India - Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt

• Fully blind IFS officer - Beno Zephine N L

• Fully blind IAS officer – Pranjal Patil

Anju Bobby George - First Indian Athlete ever to win a Medal in World Championships in Athletics She Won the Bronze Medal in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics

in Paris.

• Individual Medal Woman at Olympics - Bronze by Karnam Malleswari

• First female to represent India at the Summer Olympics - Nora Polley in the 1924 Summer Olympics

• First female to represent Independent India at the Summer Olympics - Nilima Ghose in the 1952 Summer Olympics

• First woman to compete for India in the Winter Olympic Games : Shailaja Kumar in the 1988 Winter Olympics

• First female flag bearer at the Summer Olympics : Shiny Abraham in the 1992 Summer Olympics

• First female flag bearer at the Winter Olympics : Neha Ahuja in the 2006 Winter Olympics

• First Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics: Dipa Karmakar at 2016 Summer Olympics

2012 - Radhika Menon became India's first Merchant Navy captain

Sonali Banerjee - India’s first woman maritime engineer

First woman teacher in India - Savitribai Phule

• First Woman to hold a Union Foreign Minister's post - Sushma Swaraj

• First Woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze MillianBethew

• First Woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora

• First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla

• First Indian woman who reached Antarctica - Mahel Moos

• First Indian woman who become an individual member of International Olympic Committee - Nita Ambani

• First Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peak - PremlataAgrawal

• First woman amputee to scale Everest - Arunima Sinha

• First Indian woman scientist selected as fellow in London's Royal Society - Gagandeep Kang

• First women defense Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman

• First woman Finance Minister of India - Nirmala Sitharaman

• First woman DIG in Indian Coast Guard - Nupur Kulshrestha

• Priya Jhingan - The first woman cadet to join the Indian Army

• First Indian to be appointed as the deputy director-general of WHO

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

• First woman in the Indian Army awarded the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ priz

Divya Ajith Kumar

• First person to win international bronze medal in skiing

Aanchal Thakur

• First Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal

P. V. Sindhu