Fact Sheet : First In India (Female) ladies special :-) 1. First Indian Woman To Receive Lenin Peace Award Aruna Asaf Ali 2. First Woman Vice-Chairperson Of Rajyasabha Violet Alva In 1962 3. First Woman Session Judge In India Anna Chandi 4. First Woman President Of Students Union Anju Sachdeva Of Delhi University 5. First Indian Woman To Receive Norman Borlaug Award Dr. Amrita Patel 6. First Indian Woman To Get International Grandmaster Award In Chess Bhagyasri Thipse 7. First Indian WomanIasOfficer Anna George 8. First Indian Woman T Reach In Olympic Games Sini Abraham 9. First Woman President Of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil 10. First Woman Governor Of State In India Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 11. First Woman Prime Minister Of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi 12. First Indian Woman To Swim Across English Channel Mrs. Aarti Saha 13. First Indian Woman To Swim Across Strait Of Gibraltar Aarti Pradhan 14. First Muslim Woman To Sit On Throne Of Delhi Razia Sultan 15. First Woman President Of Indian National Congress Annie Besant 16. The First Woman Chief Minister Of An Indian State Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani ( Uttar Pradesh) 17. First Woman Central Minister Of India Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 18. First Indian Woman To Climb The Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 19. First Woman Airline Pilot Cap Durba Bannerjee 20. First Woman Ambassador Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi Pandit 21. First Woman To Climb Mount Everest Twice Santosh Yadav 22. First Woman Judge Of Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi 23. First Woman Chief Justice Of High Court Mrs. Leela Seth 24. First Indian Woman Pilot In Indian Air Force Haritakaur Dayal 25. First Woman Air Vice Marshal P. Bandhopadhyaya 26. First Woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora 27. First Woman Chairman OfUpsc Rose Millian Mathew 28. First Woman Chairperson Of Indian Airlines Sushma Chawla 29. First Woman To Receive Jnanpeeth Award Asha Purna Devi 30. First Woman To Receive Bharat Ratna Mrs. Indira Gandhi 31. First Indian Woman To Receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa 32. First Woman To Receive Ashok Chakra Niraja Bhanot 33. First WomanIPSOfficer Mrs. Kiran Bedi 34. First Woman Doordarshan News Reader Pratima Puri 35. First Woman Finger Print Experts In India Sita Varthambal And Bhrangathambal ( Both Were Sisters) 36. First Indian Woman To Go In Space Kalpana Chawla 37. First Actress In The Indian Cinema Devika Rani 38. First Indian Woman To Become Miss World Reita Faria 39. First Woman Speaker Of The State Assembly Mrs. Shano Devi 40. First Indian Woman To Receive An Asiad Gold Medal Kamalji Sandhu 41. First Indian Test Tube Baby Harsha (1986) 42. First Woman Chairperson Of National Woman Commission Mrs. Jayanti Patnayak 43. First Woman Chairman Of Exim Bank Tarzani Vakil 44. First Woman To Get Arjun Award N. Lumsden (1961) 45. First Woman To Win Miss Universe Title Sushmita Sen 46. First Indian Woman President Of Uno General Assembly ? Vijay Lakshmi Pandit 47. First Woman Surgeon Dr. Prema Mukherjee 48. First Indian Woman Barrister Cornotia Sorabji 49. First Indian Woman Advocate Regina Guha 50. First Chief Justce Of Mumbai High Court Justice Sujaata B Manohar 51. First Woman To Win Wta Tennis Tournament Sania Mirza 52. First Woman President Of Indian Science Congress Dr. Ashima Chatterjee 53. First Deputy Governor Of Reserve Bank Of India? K. J. Udesi 54. First Woman Sahitya Award Winner Amrita Pritam 55. First Woman Commercial Pilot Prem Mathur Of Deccan Airways 56. First Woman Foreign Minister Lakshmi N Menon 57. First Indian Woman At Antarctica Meher Moos In 1976 58. First Woman Chief Engineer P. K. Tresia Nanguli 59. First Indian Woman To Complete Her Mbbs Kadambini Ganguli Bose In 1888 60. First Indian Paratrooper Of Indian Air Force Nita Ghose 61. First Woman Indian Railway Driver Surekha Shankar Yadav 62. The First Indian Woman Cricketer To Get 100 Wickets Diana Eduljee 63. First Indian Woman To Get Magsaysay Award Kiran Bedi 64. First Woman Secretary General Of Rajya Sabha V. S. Rama Devi