First in Women:

§  Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

§  Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888

§  Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)

§  Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892)

§  Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)[14]

§  Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)

§  Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991

§  Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi

§  High Court Judge : Anna Chandy

§  Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886

§  Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee

§  In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19, 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.

§  Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)

§  Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)

§  Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966

§  Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health

§  Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967

§  Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949

§  Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937

§  Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar

§  Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant

§  President: Pratibha Patil, 2007

§  IPS Officer Kiran Bedi

§  Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu

§  The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal , 1984

§  Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.

§  To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open

§  To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.

§  Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

§  State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab : October, 2010

§  Paris Cycling Event : Divya Tate(44) : August, 2011

§  First women IAF officer: Anjali Gupta

§  To Cross Gobi Desert : Sucheta Kadethankar :2011