100+ List Of The First Woman In India (2024 Updated)

Last Updated: 13 February 2024

We present to you the list of “The First Woman“ in the history of India who was the first in their field.

Indian Women have broken gender barriers and worked hard in the fields of Science, Art, Law, Cinema, Politics, etc to achieve success and become champions.

They made Indian history full of inspiration for the younger generation to learn.

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List Of The First Woman In All Fields Of India

Table 1

No.	Name	Role	Year
1	Draupadi Murmu	First Scheduled Tribe President of India	2022
2	Bachendri Pal	First Woman to Climb Mount Everest	1984
3	Sarla Thakral	First Woman to become Pilot	1936
4	Cornelia Sorabji	First Woman Lawyer	1888
5	Savitribai Phule	First Lady Teacher	~
6	Anna Chandy	First Female Judge	1937
7	Kalpana Chawla	The First Woman to go to Space	1997
8	Anandi Gopal Joshi	First Female Doctor	~
9	Kalpana Saroj	First Lady Entrepreneur	~
10	Reita Faria Powell	First Indian Lady to win Miss World Title	1966
11	Sushmita Sen	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Universe Title	1994
12	Nicole Faria	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Earth Title	2010
13	Zeenat Aman	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Asia Pacific International	1970
14	Himangini Singh Yadu	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Asia Pacific World	2012
15	Asha Bhat	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Supranational	2014
16	Sonal Chauhan	First Indian Lady to Win Miss Tourism	2005

Table 2

No.	Name	Role	Year
1	Asima Chatterjee	First Lady Scientist	1944
2	Harshini Kanhekar	First Woman Firefighter	2006
3	Mother Teresa	First Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace	1979
4	Razia Sultan	First Woman to Rule India	1236
5	Cornelia Sorabji	India’s First Woman Lawyer	1897
6	Chonira Belliappa Muthamma	First woman Indian Foreign Service (Woman Ambassador)	1949
7	Ashapoorna Devi	First Lady to Receive Jnanpith Award	1976
8	Indira Gandhi	First Woman to Receive Bharat Ratna	1971
9	Pratibha Devisingh Patil	First Woman President of India	2007
10	Indira Gandhi	First Woman Prime Minister of India	1966
11	Aarti Saha	First Woman to Cross English Channel	1959
12	P. T. Usha	First Indian Woman to reach the Olympic final (400m Hurdles)	1984
13	Nargis Dutt	First Woman Actress to be a member of Rajya Sabha	1980
14	Sapper Shanti Tigga	First Female Jawan in the Indian Army	2011
15	Sucheta Kadethankar	First Person to have walked across the Gobi desert (1600 km)	2011

Table 3

No.	Name	Role	Year
1	Sarojini Naidu	First Woman Governor in India	1947
2	Santosh Yadav	First Woman to climb Mt. Everest Twice	1992 1993
3	Neerja Bhanot	First Lady to Receive Ashoka Chakra	1987
4	Kiran Bedi	First Woman Indian Police Service Officer (IPS)	1975
5	Padma Bandopadhyay	First Woman Air-Marshal	2002
6	Leila Seth	First Woman Chief Justice of High Court	1991
7	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly	1953
8	Punita Arora	First Woman Lieutenant General	2004
9	Sushma Chawla	First Woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines	1996
10	Annie Besant	First Lady President of the Indian National Congress	1917
11	Kadambini Ganguly	First Women to Graduate	1883
12	Chandramukhi Basu	First Women to Graduate	1883
13	Surekha Yadav	First Woman Pilot of Locomotive engine (Train Driver)	1988
14	Arundhati Bhattacharya	First Female Chairperson of State Bank of India	2013
15	Homai Vyarawalla	India’s First Female Photojournalist	1913

Table 4

No.	Name	Role	Year
1	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya	India’s First Woman Director General of Police (D.G.P.)	1973
2	Harita Kaur Deol	First Woman Pilot to Fly Solo	1993
3	Sucheta Kripalani	First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian state	1963
4	Amrit Kaur	First Health Minister of India	1947
5	Meira Kumar	First Lady Speaker of Lok Sabha	2009
6	Violet Alva	First Lady Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha	1962
7	Shanno Devi	India’s First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly	1966
8	Karnam Malleswari	First Lady to Receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (Weightlifting)	1999
9	V. S. Ramadevi	First Lady Chief Election Commissioner	1990
10	Roze Millian Bethew	First Woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)	1992
11	Vankadarath Saritha	First Female Bus driver at Delhi Transport Corporation	2015
12	Nirmala Sitharaman	India’s First Woman full-time Finance Minister	2019
13	Indira Gandhi	First Woman Defence Minister	1975
14	Saina Nehwal	First Indian Woman to Win a Medal in Badminton at Olympics	2012
15	Priyanka N.	First Female Metro Pilot	2011

Table 5

No.	Name	Role	Year
1	Arundhati Roy	First Woman to Receive Booker Prize	1997
2	Prem Mathur	First Indian Woman Commercial pilot to fly a Domestic Airline	1947
3	Durba Banerjee	First Indian woman Commercial Pilot of Indian Airlines (now Air India)	1956
4	Shiny Abraham	First Female to Qualify for Olympics	1984
5	Kadambini Ganguly	First Indian Female Physician and Surgeon	~
6	Mary Kom	First Indian Female Boxer to Win an Olympic Medal	2014
7	Hima Das	First Indian athlete to win a Gold Medal in an International U20 Championships	2018
8	Omana Kunjamma	First Indian Woman Magistrate	~
9	Fatma Begum	First Female Film Director and Producer of Indian Cinema	~
10	Asima Chatterjee	First Lady Doctorate of Science	1944