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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
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 RadhakrishnanSardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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