First in World

First (Male) in World

The following table enlists First in the world (in male category):

The First (Man) in the World Name Tenure/Time Picture
The first person who reached North Pole.(However, there is a contradiction that probably it was Robert Edwin Peary reached first) Frederick Cook 1908
The first person who reached South Pole Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen 1911
The first person who climbed Mount Everest Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay 1953
Who was the first President of U.S.A. George Washington 1789 to 1797
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain Robert Walpole 1721 to 1742
Who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie 1946 to 1952
The first man who did drew the map of the earth Anaximander N/A
The first male (tourist) who traveled space Dennis Anthony Tito 2001
Who was the first human to journey into outer space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian) 1961
The First Chinese Pilgrim who traveled India Faxian Between A.D. 399 & 412
The First European who visited China Marco Polo  
The person who first circumnavigated the Earth (Journey around the world through sea) Ferdinand Magellan 1519 to 1522
The First US President who visited India Dwight D. Eisenhower 1959
The First person who landed on Moon Neil Alden Armstrong 1969

First (Woman) in World

The following table enlists First in the world (in female category) −

The First (Woman) in the World Name Tenure/Time Picture
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of England Margaret Hilda Thatcher 1979 to 1990
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of a country Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (of Sri Lanka) 1960–65, 1970–77, and 1994–2000 (3 times)
The first woman who climb Mt. Everest Junko Tabei (from Japan) 1975
The first woman who reached Antarctica Caroline Mikkelsen (Denmark) 1935
Who was the first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari (Iranian-American) 2006
The First woman who swam across sea channels off five continents Bula Choudhury (India) 2005
The first (Indian) woman who is appointed as a Civilian Police Advisor of the U.N. Kiran Bedi 2003
The first woman who received a Nobel Prize (She received Nobel Prize two times and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935) Marie Curie (Poland) 1903 (in Physics) & 1911 (in Chemistry)