| First Prime Minister of Pakistan | Liaqat Ali |
| First Prime Minister of England | Robert Walpole |
| First President of United States of America | George Washington |
| First President of Bangladesh | Sheikh Mujibar Rehman |
| First President of Chinese Republic | Sun Yat Sen |
| First Prime Minister of Australia | Sir Edmunton Barton |
| First Prime Minister of Israel | David Ben-Gurion |
| First State President of South Africa | Charles Robberts Swart |
| First President of Russia | Boris Yelstin |
| First President of Nepal | Ram Baran Yadav |
| First man in space | Yuri Gagarin | USSR |
| First person of African descent in space | Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez | Cuba |
| First man to reach the North Pole | Robert Peary | USA |
| First man to scale Mt Everest | Edmund Hillary | New Zealand |
| First man to reach the South Pole | Roald Amundsen | Norway |
| First man to circumnavigate the world | Enrique, Magellan's slave | Malay |
| First man to land on the moon | Neil Armstrong | USA |
| First Secretary General of the United Nations | Trygve Lie | Norway |