First Women Graduates
Kadambini Ganguly, Chandramukhi basu (1883)
First Woman Lawyer
Cornelia Sorabjee (1924)
First Physician
Kadmbini Ganguly (1886)
First Oscar winner
Bhanu Athayya (1982)
First to swim across the English Channel
Aarti Saha (1959)
First President of Indian National Congress
Annie Besant (1917)
First Chief Minister
Sucheta Kriplani (1963)
First Union Cbinet Minister
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (1947)
First Governor
Sarojiini Naidu (1947)
First Speaker of State Assembly
Sanno Devi (1966)
First Asian Gold Medalist
Kamaljit Sandhu (1970)
First IPS officer
Kiran Bedi (Haryana -1972)
First Womens College
Bethune college Kolkata 1879
First to climb Mt. Everest
Bachendri Pal (1984)
First Lt. General
Punita arora (2004)
First Air Marshal
Padmavathy Bandopadhyay (2004)
First Army medal winner
Bimla Devi (1990)
First Commercial pilot
Prem Mahur (1951)
First judge of Supreme Court
M. fatima Beevi (1989)
First president of the UN Gen. assembly
Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)
First Chief Justice of High Court
Leila Seth (1991) (mother of Vikram Seth
First Woman President of India
Pratibha Patil (2007)
