| Award/Honor | Recipient(s) | Year |
| Golden Globe Award | A R Rahman | 2009 |
| First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave | |
| Mrs. World | Aditi Gowitrikar | 2001 |
| First Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya Sen | |
| Man Booker Prize | Arundhati Roy, Satyajit Ray | 1997 |
| First woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapoorna Devi | |
| First Sportsperson to get Padma Shri | Balbir Singh Dosanjh | |
| First Indian to receive an Oscar Award | Bhanu Athaiya | 1982 |
| First Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V Raman | 1930 |
| Ashoka Chakra (Civilian) | D.K. Jatar (posthumous), M.C Dixit | |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Devika Rani | 1969 |
| Newbery Medal | Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Arundhati Roy | 1927 |
| Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award | Dr Pushkarnath | 1968 |
| Dr. B. C. Roy Award | Dr. J. G. Jolly | 1981 |
| Bharat Ratna | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, C. V. Raman | 1954 |
| First Indian to get Jnanpith Award | G. Sankara Kurup | 1965 |
| First Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine | Hargovind Khurana | 1968 |
| Miss Asia Pacific World | Himangini Singh Yadu | 2012 |
| First Woman to get Bharat Ratna Award | Indira Gandhi | |
| Jamnalal Bajaj Award | Jugatram Dave, Satish Chandra Das Gupta | 1978 |
| Woman to win Gold Medal in Sports | Kamaljeet Sandhu | 1970 |
| Olympic Medal | Khashaba Jadav | 1952 |
| Param Vir Chakra | Major Som Nath Sharma | 1947 |
| Nishan-e-Pakistan | Morarji Desai | 1990 |
| The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa | 1979 |
| Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters | Mrinal Sen, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Year not specified |
| Ashoka Chakra | Naik Nar Bahadur Thapa, Havildar Bachittar Singh, Flt Lt Suhas Biswas | 1952 |
| First Transgender to get Padma Shri | Narthaki Nataraj | 2019 |
| Miss Earth | Nicole Faria | 2010 |
| First Woman to get Ashok Chakra | Nirja Bhanot | |
| Dronacharya Award | O.M. Nambiar, Om Prakash Bhardwaj, Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat | 1985 |
| Grammy Award | Pandit Ravishankar | 1967 |
| First Indian Nobel Laureate | Rabindranath Tagore | 1913 |
| First Indian to get Ashok Chakra | Rakesh Sharma (Astronaut) | |
| Miss World | Reita Faria | 1966 |
| Stalin Peace Prize | Saifuddin Kitchlew | 1952 |
| Rabindra Puraskar | Satinath Bhaduri, Niharranjan Ray | 1950 |
| Oscar for Lifetime Achievement | Satyajit Ray | 1992 |
| Padma Vibhushan | Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon | 1954 |
| Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters | Sivaji Ganesan | 1995 |
| Kamal Kumari National Award | Sobha Brahma | 1991 |
| Miss Universe | Sushmita Sen | 1994 |
| Magsaysay Award | Vinoba Bhave | 1958 |
| Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Viswanathan Anand | 1991-92 |
| Miss Asia Pacific | Zeenat Aman | 1970 |
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