First Indian woman

అంతర్జాతీయంగా ఖ్యాతి గాంచిన మన మొదటి భారతీయ మహిళల లిస్టు.

1. The first lady to become Miss World - Rita Faria

1. 2. The first woman judge in Supreme Court – Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

3. The first woman Ambassador – Miss C.B. Muthamma
4. The first woman Governor of a state in free India – Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
5. The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly – Shanno Devi
6. The first woman Prime Minister – Mrs. Indira Gandhi
7. The first woman Minister in a Government – Rajkumaru Amrit Kaur
8. The first woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachhendri Pal on May 23, 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
9. The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
10. The first woman President of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant
11. The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Dayal
12. The first woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
13. The first woman Airline Pilot - Durga Banerjee
14. The first woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886
15. The first woman Olympic medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000
16. The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamlijit Sandhu
17. The first woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabjee
18. The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly - Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
19. The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State - Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
20. The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian Bethew
21. The first woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
22. The first woman Judge - Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
23. The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court - Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
24. The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi
25. The first woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora
26. The first woman Air Vice Marshal - P. Bandopadhyaya
27. The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
28. The first woman IPS officer - Mrs. Kiran Bedi
29. The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
30. The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra - Nirja Bhanot
31. The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi
32. The first woman to cross English Channel - Aarti Saha
33. The first woman to receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
34. The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Mrs Indira Gandhi
35. The first woman to win Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen in 1994
36. The first woman to bag Miss Earth - Nicole Faria in 2010
37. The first woman who won the Booker prize - Arundathi Roy won Booker Prize for her novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997 making her the first Indian woman to receive the prestigious award.
38. The First Woman to reach South Pole - Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
39. The First Women President - Pratibha Patil
40. The First Female Home Minister - Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.
41. The First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India - Dr. Upinderjit Kaur in Punjab Govt.
42. The first Indian woman in space - Kalpana Chawla
43. First woman to score a double hundred in test cricket - Mithali Raj (214* against Newzealand at Wellington 2004)(she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
44. First Indian woman producer and director - Fatima Begum, who produced and directed Bulbul-e-Parastan in 1926.
45. First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event - P.T.Usha
46. First Indian woman boxer to win an international event - M.C.Merykom
47. First Miss Universe of the new millennium - Lara Dutta
48. First woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha - Nargis Dutt
49. First woman Governor of Tamil Nadu - Justice M. Fatima Beevi (1997)
50. First woman Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly - Kavali Prathibha Bharati
51. India's first woman railway driver - Surekha Yadao
52. India's first woman tabla maestro - Dr Aban Mistry
53. First indian woman to win grand slam title - Sania Mirza
54. First indian woman photojournalist - Homai Vyarawalla
55. First woman who achieved Doctorate of Science - Asima Chatterjee
56. First Test-tube baby – Durga Agarwal, born 1978
57. The first Indian actress to be on the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival - Aishwarya Rai Bachhan.
58. Saina Nehwal - Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships.