In every field, there are people who were the very first to achieve something incredible. From inventors and explorers to artists and leaders, these pioneers broke new ground and showed what’s possible.
The First in The World
The First in The World” celebrates their stories, exploring how they made history and continue to inspire us today. Here we share List on The First in The World.
The first person to draw the map of Earth:
Anaximander
Who is the first person to walk in space?
Alexei Leonov
Who is the first person to step on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
The first woman to fly to space was:
Valentina Tereshkova
The first person to reach the North Pole:
Robert Peary
The first person to reach the South Pole:
Amundsen
The first country to win the football world cup:
Uruguay
The first country to win the cricket world cup:
West Indies
The first country to print a book is: China
The first country to issue paper currency:
China
The first country to prepare a constitution:
U.S.A.
The first person to fly an airplane:
Wright Brothers
The first person to sail around the world:
Magellan
The first country to send a man to the moon:
U.S.A.
The first to launch an artificial satellite in space:
Russia
The first to host the modern Olympics:
Greece
The first city where an atom bomb was dropped:
Hiroshima (Japan)
The first spacecraft to reach Mars:
Viking I
The first woman cosmonaut of the world:
Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the UNGA:
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first country to reach outer space:
Soviet Union
The first animal to orbit the Earth:
Laika (dog)
The first human to orbit the Earth:
Yuri Gagarin
The first human-made object to land on the Moon:
Luna 2
The first person to climb Mount Everest:
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
The first person to swim the English Channel:
Matthew Webb
The first country to give women the right to vote:
New Zealand
The first person to win a Nobel Prize:
Henry Dunant (Peace)
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize:
Marie Curie
The first person to invent the telephone:
Alexander Graham Bell
The first person to invent the light bulb:
Thomas Edison
The first synthetic plastic (Bakelite) inventor:
Leo Baekeland
The first person to discover penicillin:
Alexander Fleming
The first person to reach the deepest point in the ocean (Mariana Trench):
Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh
The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal:
Charlotte Cooper (Tennis)
The first country to legalize same-sex marriage:
Netherlands
The first person to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean:
Charles Lindbergh
The first successful heart transplant surgeon:
Christiaan Barnard
The first person to patent a computer algorithm:
Ada Lovelace
The first successful cloning of a mammal (Dolly the sheep):
Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell’s team
The first human to travel into space:
Yuri Gagarin
The first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen:
Reinhold Messner
The first country to use a postal system:
Persia
The first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature:
Sully Prudhomme
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean:
Amelia Earhart
The first country to abolish slavery:
Haiti
The first person to win two Nobel Prizes:
Marie Curie
The first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River:
Ed Stafford
The first person to reach the North Pole by air:
Richard E. Byrd
The first successful powered flight of an airplane:
Wright Brothers
The first person to sail solo around the world:
Joshua Slocum
The first person to travel to all sovereign countries:
Gunnar Garfors
The first person to break the sound barrier:
Chuck Yeager
The first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest:
Junko Tabei
The first person to cross Antarctica on foot:
Børge Ousland
The first country to legalize euthanasia:
Netherlands
The first person to complete a solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe by sail: Robin Knox-Johnston
The first person to fly around the world in a balloon:
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones
The first person to skydive from the stratosphere:
Felix Baumgartner
The first person to successfully perform a human-to-human heart transplant:
Christiaan Barnard
The first country to grant women the right to vote:
New Zealand
The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field:
Betty Robinson
The first person to win a Nobel Prize in Physics:
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
The first person to fly a helicopter:
Igor Sikorsky
The first human-made satellite to orbit Earth:
Sputnik 1
The first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in winter:
Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy
The first country to ban plastic bags:
Bangladesh
The first person to cross the Sahara Desert by car:
Gaston Gradis
The first woman to travel into space:
Valentina Tereshkova
The first country to use a written constitution:
USA
The first person to run a marathon under 2 hours:
Eliud Kipchoge (unofficial)
The first country to achieve independence in Africa:
Liberia
The first person to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics:
Charles Jewtraw
The first woman to become a prime minister:
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)
The first person to fly across the English Channel:
Louis Blériot
The first person to swim the entire length of the Nile River:
Levison Wood
The first person to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony):
Richard Rodgers
The first person to climb all 14 of the world’s 8000-meter peaks:
Reinhold Messner
The first person to walk the entire length of the Great Wall of China:
William Edgar Geil
The first woman to win the Fields Medal in Mathematics:
Maryam Mirzakhani
The first person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean:
John Fairfax
The first person to complete a solo flight around the world in a single-engine airplane:
Wiley Post
The first woman to receive a medical degree:
Elizabeth Blackwell
The first person to reach the North Pole solo:
Børge Ousland
The first person to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff
The first country to use democracy:
Ancient Greece
The first person to circumnavigate the Earth underwater:
USS Triton (Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.)
The first woman to reach the summit of K2:
Wanda Rutkiewicz
The first person to win the Tour de France:
Maurice Garin
The first person to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming:
Alfred Hajos
The first person to reach the summit of the highest peak on each continent (Seven Summits):
Richard Bass
The first person to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle:
Thomas Stevens
The first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean:
Amelia Earhart
The first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice:
Nawang Gombu
The first country to implement a national park:
USA (Yellowstone National Park)
The first person to walk the entire length of the Yangtze River:
Ash Dykes
The first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize twice:
International Committee of the Red Cross
The first person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean:
Kenichi Horie
The first person to complete a solo unsupported ski crossing of Antarctica:
Børge Ousland