First in World (Male) | General Awareness & Knowledge - Bank Exams PDF Download

Achievement

Name

First Secretary-General of United Nations

Trygve Lie (Norway)

First President of the United States of America

George Washington

First President of the Republic of China

Dr. Sun Yat Sen (1912)

First Prime Minister of Great Britain

Robert Walpole (1715)

Pakistan's first Governor-General

Mohammed Ali Jinnah

First Ethnic-Indian Prime Minister of Fiji

Mahendra Choudhary

First American President to visit India

Dwight David Eisenhower

First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India

Nikolai Bulganin

First European invader of Indian soil

Alexander the Great

First man to go into space

Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR)

First man to walk in space

Alexei Leonov (Russia)

First space tourist

Dennis Tito (USA)

First man to set foot on the Moon

Neil Armstrong (USA)

First man to fly an airplane

Wright Brothers

First man to reach the North Pole

Robert Peary

First man to reach the South Pole

Roald Amundsen

First man to climb Mount Everest

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953)

First man to climb Mount Everest twice

Nawang Gombu (1965)

First blind man to scale Mount Everest

Erik Weihenmayer (25th May, 2001)

First person to sail around the world

Ferdinand Magellan

First deaf and dumb person to cross the Strait of Gibraltar

Taranath Shenoy (India)

First European to visit China

Marco Polo

First man to draw the map of Earth

Anaximander

First man to compile an encyclopedia

Aspheosis (Athens)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Sully Prudhomme (France)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace

Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frédéric Passy (France)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics

Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Jacobus H. van 't Hoff (Holland)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine

Emil von Behring (Germany)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Economics

Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Tinbergen (Holland)

First and only Black man ever to win singles Wimbledon Trophy

Arthur Ashe (USA)

First Asian to head the International Cricket Council

Jagmohan Dalmiya

First man to hit a double century in One Day International match

Sachin Tendulkar (India)