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| Actress of the Talkies | Zubeida, Alam Ara(1931) |
| Actress to win Padma Shri Award | Nargis Dutt(1958) |
| Architect | Maha Govinda(5th C.BC) |
| Aryabhatta Medal Winner | K.R. Ramanathan(1977) |
| Bharat Ratna Award Winner | C.Rajgopalachari(1954) |
| British Governor General of Indian Union | Lord Louis Mountbatten(Aug. 15, 1947-June 20, 1948) |
| Captain of Test Cricket | C.K.Nayudu(1932) |
| Century in Test Cricket | Lala Amarnath(1933-1934) |
| Chairman of Rajaya Sabha | S.V.Krishnamoorthy(1952) |
| Chevalier Award Winner | Sivaji Ganesan |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen(1950-1958) |
| Chief Justice of India | Hiralal J.Kania(1950-1951) |
| Chief of Air Staff | Sir Thomas Elmhirst(1947-1950) |
| Chief of Army Staff to die in harness | B.C.Joshi(1994) |
| Chief of Coast Guard | V.A.Kamath(1978-1980) |
| Chief of Naval Staff | R.D.Katari(1958-1962) |
| Commander-in-Chief | K.M.Cariappa(1949-1953) |
| Cosmonaut | Rakesh Sharma(1984) |
| Cricketer to have battled in all positions(1 to 11) | Vinoo Mankad |
| Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner | Devika Rani Roerich(1969) |
| Dancer to perform abroad | Uday Shankar |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vallabhbhai Patel(1947-1950) |
| Deputy Prime Minister to die in harness | Vallabhbhai Patel(1950) |
| Elected President | S.Radhakrishnan(1962-1967) |
| Emperor of Mughal Dynasty | Babar(1526-1530) |
| Field Marshal | S.H.F.J.Manekshaw(1973) |
| Film Star Chief Minister | M.G.Ramachandran(Tamil Nadu, 1977) |
| Financial Minister to present the Budget three times in a row | Manmohan Singh (1933, 1994, 1995) |
| Finix Award Winner | Sr.P.C.Sorcar |
| Geometer | Baudhayana, Sulva Sutras(800 BC) |
| Governor General of British India | Warren Hastings(1774-1785) |
| Grammarian | Panini, Ashtadhyaayi(6th C. BC) |
| Helms Award Winner | Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu(1952) |
| Home Minister | Vallabhbhai Patel(1946) |
| ICS Officer | Satyendranath Tagore |
| Indian Chief of Air Staff | S.Mukherjee(1954-1960) |
| Indian Governor General of Indian Union | M.Rajendra Singh(April 1, 1955-May 14, 1955) |
| Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress | Sarojini Naidu(1925) |
| J.C.Bose Medal Winner | V.Ramalingaswami(1977) |
| Jain Tithankara | Rishabha Dev |
| Jananpith Award Winner | G.Sankara Kurup, Odakuzhal(1965) |
| Lady of the Indian Film | Devika Rani Roerich |
| Lata Mangeshkar Award Winner | Naushad(1984) |
| Lawgiver | Manu, Manu Smirti(3100 BC) |
| Man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen | Phu Dorjee(1984) |
| Man to climb Mount Everest | Tanzing Norgay(with Edumund Hillary, 1953) |
| Man to make solo Flight(from US to India) | Satish Soman(1994) |
| Man to swim across English Channel | Mihir Sen(1966) |
| Man to swim several Straits in one calender year | Mihir Sen(1966) |
| Managing Director of World Bank | Gautam Kaji(1995) |
| Member of British Parliament | Dadabhai Naoroji(1862) |
| Member of Viceroy's Executive Council | Sir S.P.Sinha(1909) |
| Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen(1994) |
| Miss World | Reita Faria(1966) |
| Musician to get Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushana | M.S.Subbulakshmi(1954,1975) |
| Musician to get Ramon Magsaysay Award | M.S.Subbulakshami(1974) |
| Naval Pilot | Y.N.Singh(1941) |
| Nishan-i-Pakistan Award Winner | Morarji Desai(1991) |
| Nobel Prize Winner | Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali(1913) |
| Olympic Medal Winner | Norman Pritchard, Silver(1900) |
| Oscar Winner | Bhanu Athaiya |
| Patricide | Ajatshatru's killing of Bimbisara(494 BC) |
| Physically handicapped mountaineer | Baba Manindra Pal |
| Pilot | J.R.D.Tata, Tata Airlines(1929) |
| Presentation of Budget | R.K.Shanmugham Chetty, Finance Minister(1947) |
| Presentation of General Budget | C.D.Deshmukh, Finance Minister(1952) |
| President | Rajendra Prasad(1950-1962) |
| President of Indian National Congress | W.C.Bannerjee(1885) |
| President of International Court of Justice | Nagendra Singh(1970) |
| President to die in harness | Zakir Hussain(1967-1969) |
| Prime Minister | Jawaharlal Nehru(1947-1964) |
| Prime Minister to be assassinated | Indira Gandhi(1984) |
| Prime Minister to die in harness | Jawaharlal Nerhru(1964) |
| Prime Minister to head a minority government | Choudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan,14, 1980) |
| Prime Minister to resign from office | Morarji Desai(1979) |
| Prime Minister who did not face Parliament | Chaudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan 14, 1980) |
| Raman Medal Winner | Salim Moinuddin Ahmed Ali(1979) |
| Raman Magsaysay Award Winner | Vinoba Bhave(1958) |
| Recipient of Stalin Peace Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlew(1954) |
| Recipient of World Food Prize | M.S.Swaminathan(1987) |
| S.Ramanujan Medal Winner | S.Chandrashekhar(1962) |
| S.S.Bhatnagar Medal Winner | Atma Ram(1959) |
| Scientist | Uddalaka Aruni(560 BC) |
| Slave Ruler of India | Qutb-ud-din Aibak(1206-1210) |
| Speaker in Hindi at the UN | Atal Bihari Vajpayee(1977) |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha | Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar(1952-1957) |
| Test-tube baby | Baby Harsha or Indira(1986) |
| Vice-President | S.Radhakrishnan(1952-1962) |
| Viceroy of India | Lord Canning (1858-1862) |
| Woman (Muslim) Ruler of India | Razia Sultana(1236-1240) |
| Woman Advocate | Cornelia Sorabji(1894) |
| Woman Ambassador | Vijayalakshmi Pandit(U.S.S.R., 1947-1949) |
| Woman at Antarctica | Meher Moos(1976) |
| Woman Central Minister | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur(Health) |
| Woman Chief Justice(of High Court) | Leila Seth(Himachal Pradesh, 1991) |
| Woman Chief Minister | Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967) |
| Woman Foreign Minister | Lakshmi N. Menon(1957-1966) |
| Woman Secretary General of Rajya Sabha | V.S.Rama Devi(1993) |
| Woman Governor | Sarojini Naidu(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967) |
| Woman IAS Officer | Anna Rajam George(1950) |
| Woman IPS Officer | Kiran Bedi(1974) |
| Woman Jet Commander | Saudamini Deshmukh |
| Woman Jnanpithpith Award Winner | Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti(1976) |
| Woman Judge of Supreme Court | Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi(1989) |
| Woman Minister of State | Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh, 1937) |
| Woman Missionary | Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka (Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC) |
| Woman Pilot (Commercial) | Prem Mathur(Deccan Airways, 1951) |
| Woman Pilot (Indian Airlines) | Durga Banerjee(1966-1988) |
| Woman President of Indian National Congress | Annie Besant(1917) |
| Woman President of UN General Assembly | Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1953) |
| Woman Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi(1966-1977, 1980-1984) |
| Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner | Amrita Pritam, Sunehre(1956) |
| Woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachendri Pal(1984) |
| Woman to perform a solo Flight | Harita Kaur Deol(1944) |
| Woman to swim across English Channel | Arati Saha(1959) |
| Woman to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar | Arti Pradhan |
| Woman to win an Asian Gold | Kamaljit Sandhu(1970) |
| Woman to go in Space | Dr.Kalpana Chawla(November 1997) |
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