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First Indian Female in Various Fields

FIRST INDIAN FEMALE IN VARIOUS FIELDS

Serial No. Category Name Achievement Year
1 First Female Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Became the first female Prime Minister of India 1966
2 First Female President Pratibha Patil Became the first female President of India 2007
3 First Female Governor Sarojini Naidu Became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh 1947
4 First Female IPS Officer Kiran Bedi Joined the Indian Police Service 1972
5 First Female to win the Nobel Prize Mother Teresa Won the Nobel Peace Prize 1979
6 First Female Pilot Sarla Thakral Earned her pilot's license 1936
7 First Female Chief Minister of a State Sucheta Kriplani Became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 1963
8 First Female to Climb Mount Everest Bachendri Pal Reached the summit of Mount Everest 1984
9 First Female to win a Booker Prize Arundhati Roy Won for her novel "The God of Small Things" 1997
10 First Female Astronaut Kalpana Chawla Flew on Space Shuttle Columbia 1997
11 First Female Speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar Elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha 2009
12 First Female President of the UN General Assembly Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Elected as President of the UN General Assembly 1953
13 First Female to win a Medal in the Olympics Karnam Malleswari Won a bronze medal in weightlifting 2000
14 First Female Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Fathima Beevi Appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India 1989
15 First Female DGP (Director General of Police) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Appointed as DGP of Uttarakhand 2004
16 First Female Finance Minister Indira Gandhi Held the additional charge as Finance Minister 1970
17 First Female to Win the Miss World Title Reita Faria Won the Miss World title 1966
18 First Female to win a gold medal in Asian Games Kamaljeet Sandhu Won gold in the 400m race at Asian Games 1970
19 First Female Ambassador C.B. Muthamma Appointed as India's Ambassador to Hungary 1970
20 First Female to receive Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi Awarded the Bharat Ratna 1971
21 First Female Air Marshal Padmavathy Bandopadhyay Promoted to Air Marshal rank in the Indian Air Force 2002
22 First Female President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant Elected as the President of Indian National Congress 1917
23 First Female Commercial Pilot Durba Banerjee Became the first Indian woman to fly commercial aircraft 1956
24 First Female Chief Justice of a High Court Leila Seth Became Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court 1991
25 First Female Director General of Police (DGP) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Appointed as DGP of Uttarakhand 2004
26 First Female to win the Padma Shri Anna Malhotra Awarded for her contribution to civil services 1968
27 First Female Scientist in Indian Antarctic Mission Sudipta Sengupta Participated in the Indian Antarctic Expedition 1983
28 First Female to win a Grammy Award Tanvi Shah Won as a part of A. R. Rahman’s team for Slumdog Millionaire 2008
29 First Female to become CEO of a Fortune 500 Company Indra Nooyi Became the CEO of PepsiCo 2007
30 First Female President of NASSCOM Debjani Ghosh Elected as President of NASSCOM 2018
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