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First Indian Female Achievers - Great Women Achievers of India

Here is the list of some of the First & Great Women Achievers of India . They are the powerful Indian women who have made India shine on a global platform. These Indian women are the physical manifest of power, dedication towards work, will, grace and have shown extra ordinary brilliance in their respective fields.

First Indian Female Achievers

  1. First Indian woman to become Miss World - Reita Faria
  2. First Indian woman judge in Supreme Court - Mrs Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
  3. First Indian woman Ambassador - Miss C.B. Muthamma
  4. First Indian woman Governor of a state in free India - Mrs Sarojini Naidu
  5. First Indian woman Speaker of a State Assembly - Shanno Devi
  6. First Indian woman Prime Minister - Mrs Indira Gandhi
  7. First Indian woman Minister in a Government - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  8. First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachendri Pal
  9. First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav
  10. First Indian woman President of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant
  11. First Indian woman pilot in Indian Air Force - Harita Kaur Dayal
  12. First Indian woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
  13. First Indian woman Airline Pilot - Durba Banerjee
  14. First Indian woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy, 1886
  15. First Indian woman Olympic medal Winner - Karnam Malleswari, 2000
  16. First Indian woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner - Kamaljit Sandhu
  17. First Indian woman Lawyer - Cornelia Sorabji
  18. First Indian woman President of United Nations General Assembly - Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
  19. First Indian woman Chief Minister of an Indian State - Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
  20. First Indian woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission - Roze Millian Bethew
  21. First Indian woman Director General of Police - Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
  22. First Indian woman Judge - Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)
  23. First Indian woman Chief Justice of High Court - Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court)
  24. First Indian woman Judge in Supreme Court of India - Kumari Justice M Fathima Beevi
  25. First Indian woman Lieutenant General - Puneeta Arora
  26. First Indian woman Air Vice Marshal - P Bandyopadhyay
  27. First Indian woman chairperson of Indian Airlines - Sushma Chawla
  28. First Indian woman IPS officer - Mrs Kiran Bedi
  29. First and last Muslim woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
  30. First Indian woman to receive Ashok Chakra - Neerja Bhanot
  31. First Indian woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi
  32. First Indian woman to cross English Channel - Aarti Saha
  33. First Indian woman to receive Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa
  34. First Indian woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Mrs Indira Gandhi
  35. First Indian woman to receive Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi

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