First Recipients of Various Awards

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●●BHARAT RATNA

1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Bharat Ratna----C Rajagopalachari
2) 1st Bharat Ratna Awardee to become the President of India----Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
3) 1st person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously ----Lal Bahadur Shastri
4) 1st Scientist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----CV Raman
5) 1st and only Industrialist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----JRD Tata
6) 1st woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ----Mrs. Indira Gandhi

●●LITERARY AWARDS

1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature ---- Rabindranath Tagore
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) 1st recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith award ----G Sankara Kurup
3) 1st recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for English ----RK Narayan
4) 1st person to receive Nobel prize for English literature ---- Rudyard Kipling
5) 1st Indian to receive the Booker prize (British citizen) ---- Salman Rushdie
6) 1st Indian woman (and also first Indian citizen) to receive the Booker prize ---- Arundhati Roy
7) 1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category) ---- Gobind Behari Lal

●●SPORTS AWARDS

1) 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award---- Viswanathan Anand
2) 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ---- Karnam Malleshwari
3) 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award ----Aparna Ghosh
4) 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award---- Salim Durrani

●●AWARDS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE

1) 1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize ---- CV Raman
2) 1st person to receive Nobel prize for Physics ---- William K Roentgen
3) 1st woman to receive the Nobel prize ---- Madame Curie (1903)

●●GALLANTRY AWARDS
1) 1st winner of Param Vir Chakra ---- Major Somnath Sharma
2) 1st and only Air Force person to receive the Param Vir Chakra----Flying Officer Nirmaljit Shekhon
3) 1st and only woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra ---- Neerja Bhanot (1987)

●●FOREIGN AWARDS

1) 1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan ---- Morarjee Desai
2) 1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award ---- Vinoba Bhave

●●FILM AWARDS

1) 1st winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award ---- Devika Rani
2) 1st winner of Filmfare best actor award ---- Dilip Kumar
3) 1st winner of Filmfare best actress award ---- Meena Kumari
4) 1st Hindi film to win the National film Award ---- Mirza Ghalib (1954)
5) 1st film to win the Best Film Academy Award (Oscar) ---- Wings (1927-28)

●●OTHER AWARDS

1) 1st recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding ---- U Thant (1965)
2) 1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development ---- Parliamentarians for Global Action(1986)
3) 1st recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian Award ---- Shri Chandrashekhar (1995)
4) 1st recipient of Gandhi Peace Prize (Govt of India Award)---- Julius Nyerere (1995)
5) 1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Borlaug (Father of Green Revolution) ----MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution in India ), 1987
6) 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Individual) ---- Asghar Ali Engineer, 1997
7) 1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Organisation)---- Quami Ekta Trust, 1997
8) 1st recipient of Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony ---- Pt. Ravi Shankar, 2012
9) 1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (America's prestigious award for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity) ---- APJ Abdul Kalam, 2008
10) 1st recipient of VK Krishna Menon Award (instituted by London based VK Krishna Menon Foundation) ---- Former CJI KG Balakrishnana