First Recipients of Various Awards

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First Recipients of Various Awards

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●●BHARAT RATNA

1)     1st Indian to be awarded the Bharat Ratna—-C Rajagopalachari

2)     1st Bharat Ratna Awardee to become the President of India—-Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

3)     1st person to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously —-Lal Bahadur Shastri

4)     1st Scientist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna  —-CV Raman

5)     1st and only Industrialist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna  —-JRD Tata

6)     1st woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna   —-Mrs. Indira Gandhi

●●LITERARY AWARDS

1)     1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature      —-  Rabindranath Tagore

2)     1st recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith award —-G Sankara Kurup

3)     1st recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for English  —-RK Narayan

4)     1st person to receive Nobel prize for English literature    —-   Rudyard Kipling

5)     1st Indian to receive the Booker prize (British citizen)  —-     Salman Rushdie

6)     1st Indian woman (and also first Indian citizen) to receive the
Booker prize     —-   Arundhati Roy

7)     1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category)    —-   Gobind Behari Lal

●●SPORTS AWARDS

1)     1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award—- Viswanathan Anand

2)     1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award   —-   Karnam Malleshwari

3)     1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award  —-Aparna Ghosh

4)     1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award—-   Salim Durrani

●●AWARDS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE

1)     1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize  —-   CV Raman

2)     1st person to receive Nobel prize for Physics —-  William K Roentgen

3)     1st woman to receive the Nobel prize  —-   Madame Curie (1903)

●●GALLANTRY AWARDS

1)     1st winner of Param Vir Chakra —- Major
Somnath Sharma

2)     1st and only Air Force person to receive the Param Vir Chakra—-Flying Officer Nirmaljit Shekhon

3)     1st and only woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra —- Neerja Bhanot (1987)

●●FOREIGN AWARDS

1)     1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan —-    Morarjee Desai

2)     1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award  —- Vinoba Bhave

●●FILM AWARDS

1)     1st winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award —-  Devika Rani

2)     1st winner of Filmfare best actor award —- Dilip Kumar

3)     1st winner of Filmfare best actress award    —-    Meena Kumari

4)     1st Hindi film to win the National film Award  —-  Mirza Ghalib (1954)

5)     1st film to win the Best Film Academy Award (Oscar)   —- Wings (1927-28)

●●OTHER AWARDS

1)     1st recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International
Understanding   —- U Thant (1965)

2)     1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development    —- Parliamentarians for
Global Action(1986)

3)     1st recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian Award  —- Shri Chandrashekhar (1995)

4)     1st recipient of Gandhi Peace Prize (Govt of India Award)—-  Julius Nyerere (1995)

5)     1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Borlaug (Father
of Green Revolution) —-MS Swaminathan (Father
of Green Revolution in India ), 1987

6)     1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Individual)  —-  Asghar Ali Engineer, 1997

7)     1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award (Organisation)—- Quami Ekta Trust, 1997

8)     1st recipient of Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony —- Pt. Ravi Shankar, 2012

9)     1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (America’s prestigious award for
outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity) —-  APJ Abdul Kalam, 2008

10)    1st recipient of VK Krishna Menon Award (instituted by London based VK Krishna
Menon Foundation)  —-  Former CJI KG
Balakrishnana