General Knowledge List of First In World (Male Personalities) whose outstanding contributions will be remembered and recognised across the globe. Find the complete list of ‘First In World: Male Personalities’ which is composed of all those male personalities whose contribution were made the first time in the history of mankind.

1^st: Secretary General of UN

                     Trygve Lie

• Norwegian politician, labor leader, government official and author.
• From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations.

1^st: European invader in India

                     Alexander the Great

• In 326 BC, Alexander invaded India, after crossing the river Indus he advanced towards Taxila.

1^st: in Space to go into space

Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR)

• Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space in his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961

1^st: in Space To walk in Space

                     Alexey Leonov (Russia)

• Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, on 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

1^st: Space tourist

                     Dennis Tito (USA)

• In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the ISS

1^st: To set foot on Moon

                     Neil Armstrong (USA)

• On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon.

1^st: To Fly an Airplane

Wright Brothers

• The Wright brothers – Orville and Wilbur were two American aviation pioneers flying the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane.
• They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903

1^st: To climb Mount Everest

• New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953

1^st: To draw the map of Earth

Anaximander

• In 6th century BC, he drew a map of the then known world, assuming that the earth was cylindrical.
• The first Greek to draw a world map using the assumption of a spherical earth was Eratosthenes.

1^st: To win Noble Prize

CATEGORY	WINNER
Literature	Sully Prudhomme
Peace	Henry Dunant & Frederic Passy
Physics	WK Roentgen
Chemistry	Jacobus H Van’t Hoft
Medicine	AE Von Behring
Economics	Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinberg

1^st: To reach North Pole

                     Robert Peary

• He reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909

1^st: To reach South Pole

                     Roald Amundsen

• The first expedition to the South Pole in 1911

1^st: President of USA

                     George Washington

• George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

1^st: President of Russia

                     Boris Yelstin

• Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

1^st: President of Republic of China

Dr. Sun Yat Sen

• Sun was a Chinese philosopher, physician, and politician, who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China) in the year 1912.

1^st: Prime Minister of Great Britain

                     Sir Robert Walpole

• Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, known between 1721 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1715.

1^st: Governor General of Pakistan

                     Mohammed Ali Jinnah

• He served as the Governor General of Pakistan from 14^th August 1947 till his death.

1^st: US President to visit India

                     Dwight David Eisenhower

• The first presidential trip to South Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent), made by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959, occurred as the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union deepened.

1^st: Production Automobile (Petrol based)

Karl Benz

• In 1885, Karl Benz developed a petrol or gasoline-powered automobile. This is also considered to be the first “production” vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies.

1^st: Olympic Gold Medal

James B. Connolly

• At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the winner was crowned with an olive wreath and received a silver medal. James B. Connolly of Massachusetts was the first Olympic champion to be rewarded.

1^st: Petroleum Fueled Two wheeler

Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach

• The first internal combustion, petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen which was designed and built by the German inventors in Germany in 1885.

1^st: to Sail across the Globe

                     Fardinand Magellan

• A Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

1^st: Man to hit 200 in a Cricket ODI Match

                     Sachin Tendulkar

• Sachin Tendulkar smashed a record-breaking unbeaten 200-runs knocked off facing 147-balls including 25-fours and 3-sixes against South Africa in an ODI at Gwalior.