First In World : Female Personalities 2

 S.No.

Role

Miscellaneous

 1

First person to discover radioactivity

Marie Curie of Poland

 2

First woman to swim the english channel

Gertrude Ederle of the USA

 3

 First woman to reach the North Pole

Ann Bancroft of USA

 4

 First woman Prime Minister of the UK

Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, 1979

 5

 First woman to win Magsasay award

 M. S. Subbulakshmi, 1974

 6

 First woman to win the Templeton award

Mother Teresa

 7

 First woman to win nobel prize in literature

Pearl S. Buck

 8

 First woman to reach South pole

Shirley M. Metz (USA)

 9

 First woman Prime Minister of European country

Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, 1979

 10

 First youngest Asian to swim across English channel

Arti Pradhan at the age of 16 

 11

 First camerawoman

Tamara Lobova

 12

 First lady composer

Jaddan Bai

 13

 First lady Director

Lois Weber (USA)

 14

 First lady Producer

Countess Bubha (UK)

 15

 First woman Bishop in Anglicicanism

Barbara Harris (USA)

 16

 First democratically elected female head of a Country

Vigdis Finnbogadottir

 17

 First woman airplane pilot in the World

Prem Mathur (India)

 18

 First woman Doctor in the World

Elizabeth Blackwell

 19

 First woman pilot to fly an airbus 300

Capt. Durba Bannerjee, 1987

20

First Asian woman member of the House of Lords of British Parliament

Mrs. Sheela Flather of India