Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

first woman President of the World Health Assembly of WHO-1950

Kadamdani Ganguly

first Indian lady doctor-1886

Louis Washkansky

fist recipient of a permanent artificial heart-1982

Dr. Christian Barnard

first doctor to perform a human heart transplant-1967

George (Christine) Jorgenson

first sex-change operation in the world-1952

Richard Lower

first physician to perform direct transfusion of blood-1666

Alice Guy Blache

first American woman film director-1896

Hattie McDaniel

first Black actress to win an Oscar for "Gone With The Wind"-1939

Janet Gaynor

first Oscar winner for Best Actress-1928

Mother India

first Indian Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film-1957

Bhanu Athaiya

first Indian Oscar winner for Best Costume Design for the film "Gandhi"-1982

Sidney Poitier

first Black actor to win an Oscar-1964

Emil Jannings

first Oscar winner for Best Actor-1928

The Jazz Singer

first talkie movie in the world-1927

Devika Rani

first Indian to win Dadasaheb Phalke Award-1970

Cornelia Sorabji

first Indian woman to be a law graduate-1894

Helen Keller

first blind and deaf woman to be a graduate- Radcliffe College 1904

Edith Wharton

first woman to win a Pultizer Prize for fiction-1921

Jhumpa Lahiri

first Indian woman to win a Pultizer Prize-2000

Halle Berry

first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress-2002