Female Personality | Year | Role |
---|---|---|
Savitribai Phule | 1848 | Savitribai Phule became the first woman teacher in India. |
Annie Besant | 1917 | First female president of the Indian National Congress. |
Pandita Ramabai | 1919 | First Indian woman to be awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal by the British Raj. |
Sarojini Naidu | 1925 | First Indian born female president of the Indian National Congress. |
Sarla Thakral | 1936 | the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft |
Asima Chatterjee | 1944 | First Indian woman to be conferred the Doctorate of Science by an Indian university. |
Amrit Kaur | 1947 | First female Cabinet minister of India in the country's first cabinet. |
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi | 1887 | the first Indian female physician |
Shila Dawre | 1988 | country's first woman autorickshaw driver when she first stepped into the 'male-dominated' zone |
Arunima Sinha | 2013 | the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first Indian amputee to climb the Everest. |
Reita Faria Powel | 1966 | Reita Faria Powel is an Indian model, doctor and beauty queen, who won Miss World also the first Asian woman to win the title |
Arati Saha | 1959 | the first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel. She also became the first female sportsperson to be awarded Padma Shri in 1960. |
Mother Teresa | 1979 | the first Indian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize |
Indira Gandhi | 1966 | the first woman Prime Minister of India and served from 1966 to 1977. In 1971, she became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna award. |
Pratibha Patil | 2007-2012 | the first woman President of India and held office from July 2007 to July 2012. |
Kalpana Chawla | 1997 | the first Indian woman who reached in space. As a mission specialist and a primary robotic arm operator, she went into space in 1997. |
Kiran Bedi | 1972 | Kiran Bedi became the first woman officer in India. Moreover, later in 2003, Kiran Bedi also became the first woman who was appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser. |
Anjali Gupt | 2001 | Anjali Gupta is the first female flying officer in the Indian Air Force to be court-martialled |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | 1953 | the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly |
Anna Chandy | 1959 | the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court) |
Sucheta Kriplani | 1963 | the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the first woman to hold that position in any Indian state |
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | 1966 | Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership |
Kamaljit Sandhu | 1970 | the first Indian woman to win a Gold in the Asian Games |
Bachendri Pal | 1984 | Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. |
Surekha Yadav | 1986 | the first Asian woman loco-pilot or railway driver. |
Justice M. Fathima Beevi | 1989 | the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India |
Priya Jhingan | 1992 | the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army (later commissioned on 6 March 1993 |
Meira Kumar | 4 June 2009 | the first female Speaker of Lok Sabha. |
Priyanka N. | 20 October 2011 | drove the inaugural train of the Namma Metro becoming the first female Indian metro pilot. |
Mitali Madhumita | 2011 | the first woman officer to win a Sena Medal for gallantry. |
Tanushree Pareek | 25 March 2017 | the first female combat officer commissioned by the Border Security Force |
Sania Mirza | 2005 | the first ever Indian woman to win the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) title in 2005. |
Saina Nehwal | 2012-2015 | Saina Nehwal becamethe first Indian women to win a medal in Badminton at 2012 Olympic Games. Later in 2015, she became the first Indian woman to secure no. 1 position in world rankings. |
Mary Kom | 2002,2005,2006,2008 2010 |
5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion. she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics |
Deepa Malik | 2016 | First medal and that’s Silver won by her in Paralympics games in Summer Paralympics 2016. |
Sushmita Sen | 1994 | The First Miss Universe |
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