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          

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