1.First and youngest roller skater.
Sheetal Pandya (7 years old).
2. First Asian woman to sail around the world
Ujwala Patil, 1988.
3. First athlete to be awarded Arjuna Award (woman)
Stephie D’Souza
4. First deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha
Violet Aiwa
5. First ever woman musician to be awarded the Padma
M.S. Subbhulakshmi Vibhushan
6.First highest individual score in women’s Test cricket
Mithali Raj
7.First Indian elected the Chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
8. First Indian girl to win the British chess championship
Tania Sachdev of Delhi at age of 8 years old.
9.First Indian musician to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service
M.S. Subbhulakshmi.
10.First Indian to leap past 6.50 metres (long jump)
Aitfu George
11.First Indian woman check pilot on an airbus A 300
Captain Nivedita Bhasin
12.First Indian woman commander of a jet aircraft
Capt Miss Saudamini Deshmukh of Indian Airlines.
13.First Indian woman merchant banker
Naina Lai Kidwai, vice chairman of J.M. Morgan Stanley.
14. First Indian woman pilot of Boeing 707 plane
Saudamini Deshmukh
15.First Indian woman pleader
Regina Guha
16.First Indian woman to be appointed as assistant director of the World Health Organization
Poonam Khetrapal Singh in general July 1998.
17.First Indian woman to become Miss World
Rita Faria
18. First Indian woman to enter the final of an Olympic athletic event
P.T. Usha, Los Angeles, 1984.
19. First Indian woman to qualify Olympic semi final (in athletics)
Shiny Abraham
20. First Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest
Bachendri Pal of UP on May 24,1984.
21. First Indian woman scoring a Test double century
Mithali Raj
22.First Indian woman to win a match at a Grand Slam
Nirupama Vaidyanathan
23.First Indian woman to win Miss Universe title
Sushmita Sen
24.First Indian/Asian woman to swim the English Channel
Miss Arati Saha (now Mrs. Arati Gupta), 1959.