- Abd Aziz Ibn Saud - the first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53)
- Ahmed Ben Bella - The first president of Independent Algeria.
- Alan B. Shephard Jr. - the first American to manned space flight in 1961.
- Albert Cushion Read, Lt Cmdr - the first crossing of the North Atlantic by air on 16-27 May 1919.
- Albert P. Carry, Dr. - the first to reached both poles, North Poles on 3 May 1952 and South Pole on 12 February 1961.
- Alexander Cartwright Jr. - established the first ruled of modern Baseball game in 1845.
- Alexander T. Augusta (Major) - the first black surgeon in U.S. Army.
- Alexei Leonov - the first spacewalk in 1965 from USSR.
- Alice Wells - the first policewomen - Los Angeles Police Department in 1910.
- Ambrogio Calepino - produced the first known dictionary in 1502, Italy.
- Amelia Earhart - the first woman to make solo flight across Atlantic in 1932.
- Amerigo Vespucci - the first to identified the America as their own continents, not part of Asia.
- Amy Johnson - English aviator - the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. She was presumed drowned.
- Andreas George Papandreou - Greece's first Socialist Prime Minister (1981-89).
- Anita Newcomb Magee (Dr.) - the first woman Army Surgeon in 1898.
- Arthur Ashe - the first black tennis player to win the US Open (1968), the Australian Open (1970) and the Wimbledon men's competition in 1975.
- Arthur Griffith - founden Sinn Fenn in 1905 and the first president of the Irish Free State in 1922.
- Arthur Whitten Brown, Jr. - the first ever crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane in June 1919 together with Capt. John Alcock.
- Augustus - the first Emperor of Rome in 31 B.C.
- Barbara Allen Rainey - the first woman pilot in the history of U.S. Navy.
- Benazir Bhutto - the first woman leader of a Muslim country (Prime Minister of Pakistan).
- Benjamin O. Davis (General) - the first black General in the U.S. Regular Armed Forces.
- Blanche Stuart Ascott - the first woman pilot in 1910.
- Bob Marley - Jamaican raggae singer : the first rock superstar to emerge from a developing country.
- Bobby Fischer - the first U.S. Player to win the World Championship in chess, 1972.
- Buddy Holly - American rock singer - the first rock singer to use the back-up of lead, rhythm and bass guitar with drum. Died in plane crash in 1959.
- Caroline Mikkeisen - the first woman to set foot on Antartica in 1935.
- Chaim Weizmann - the first President of Israel (1949- 52)
- Charles Augustus Lindbergh - the first man to fly the Atlantic solo and nonstop in 1927.
- Charles de Gaulle - French first President of the 5th Republic.
- Charles Young (Colonel) - the first black to reach the rank of Colonel in U.S. Military.
- Christian Barnard (Dr. ) - performed the first heart transplant in 1967.
- Constantine 1 - the first Christian of Roman Emperor in 312 B.C.
- Countess Markiewicz - the first woman to be elected to the British Parliament in 1918.
- Clyde Plangborn & Hugh Herndon - the first non-stop Pacific Flight on 3-5 October, 1931.
- Clyde William Tombough - the first to record Planet Pluto in February, 1906.
- Daniel C. James (General) - first black 4-star officer in U.S. Armed Forces.
- David Ben-Gurion - the first Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53)
- David Stirling - founder of the British Special Air Services (SAS).
- Edmund Halley - made the first prediction of Halley's comet.
- Edmund Hillary (Sir) - made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
- Enrico Fermi - built the first nuclear reactor at Chicago in 1942.
- Ernest Rutherford - the first scientist to split the atom in 1911.
- Ferdinand - the first King of Spain.
- Ferdinand Magellan - the first man to sail around the world in 1519.
- Florence Nightingale - Founder of the Nightingale School of Nurses - the first such school in the world. She was the first woman to received Order of Merit.
- Fran Phillips - the first woman to set foot on the North Pole on 5 April 1971.
- Francis Drake (Sir) - the first Englishman to sail around the world.
- Francis Victor Wallington (Captain) - the first soldier to be awarded Military Cross in 1918.
- George Washington - First President of the United States of America (1789 - 1797).
- Gerardus Mercator - the first person to use the term 'Atlas' to describe a collection of maps.
- Golda Meir - Israel's first female Prime Minister (1969-1974).
- Harriet Quimby - the first women to fly across English Channel in 1912.
- Harry G. Cramer (Sargeant) - the first American Soldier to died in Vietnam war in 1956.
- Hastings Banda - first President of Nyasaland , 1963.
- Hatshepsut's (Queen) - the first great woman in recorded history.
- Helmut Kohl - the first chancellor of reunited Germany in 1990.
- Igor Ivan Sikorsky - built the first 4 engined aircraft in 1913, the first successful helicopter in 1939.
- Isabel Peron - the World's first Woman President (Argentina 1974 - 76).
- Jack Dempsey - the first World Championship (middleweight) for boxing, New York , 1884.
- Jacques-Dominique de Cassini - the first to draw Topography maps on 1793.
- James Hetherington - the first person to wear a top hat in public.
- Jean-Baptiste Constant Moans - the first known stamp dealer in 1855.
- John F. Kennedy - the first Roman Catholic and the youngest man to be elected U.S. President.
- John Glenn - first American to orbit the earth.
- John L. Sullivan - the first Boxing World Heavyweight Champion (1889 - 1892).
- John Paul II - the first Polish Pope and first non-Italian Pope for 450 years.
- John Salk - first to discovered the Polio vaccine.
- John Tomlynson - the first known stamp collector on record.
- Joseph Nicephore Niepce - take the world's first photograph in 1822.
- Julian Sorell Huxley (Sir) - the first Director General of UNESCO (1946-48).
- Junko Tabei - the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975.
- Karl Schwarzchild - German astronomer : the first to proposed the Black Hole in space in 1916.
- Karoline Mikkelsen - the first woman to set foot on Antartica on February 20, 1936.
- Katherine Knight - the first Australian woman to be sentenced to a Natural Life Term without parole for murder case.
- Khenthaus - the first Queen of Egypt.
- Lee Kuan Yew - Singapore's first Prime Minister.
- Louis Bleriot - the first flight across the English Channel in 1909.
- Louis Botha - first Prime Minister of South Africa (1910-19) , he led the Boer Forces against the British during the Boer War.
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher - Britain's first woman Prime Minister in 1979.
- Marie Curie - the first woman to win a Noble Prize in 1903 and the first person to win 2 Noble Prizes.
- Mary 1 - Queen of England from 1553, the first woman to rule England.
- Mary Randolph - author of "The Virginia Housewife" and wife of General Robert E. Lee. She was the first person to to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart - America's first woman war correspondent during World War 1.
- Matthew Alexander Henson - the first American-African who first reach the pole and planted the American flag on April 6, 1909.
- Michelle Norris (Private) - the first woman to be awarded the Military Cross for her action in Iraq on June 11, 2006 while serving with The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment.
- Milton Obote - Uganda first Prime Minister after independence (1962-66).
- Mohammed Ali Jinnah - the first Governor General of Pakistan (1947-48).
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Lady - the first woman to take her seat in Parliament.
- Naomi Uemura - Japanese explorer and mountaineer, the first person to reach the North Pole in a solo trek across the Artic Ice Gap on May 1, 1978.
- Neil Armstrong - U.S. Astronaut , the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969.
- Nero - Roman Emperor, became infamous for his debauchery, vanity and paranoia.
- Niels Bohr - Danish physicist who was the first to apply Quantum Theory to explain the stability of the nuclear model of the atom.
- Otto von Bismarck (Prince) - the first chancellor of United Germany.
- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru - the first Prime Minister of India (1947 - 1964)
- R.A. Fessenden - the first person to transmit speech by radio.
- R.H. Lawler - performed the first Homo Transplantation of the kidney in the human in 1950.
- Ralph Johnson Bunche - the first black to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
- Ramsay MacDonald - the first British Labour Prime Minister (1924, 1929-31).
- Richard M. Nixon - the first U.S. President to resign from office in 1974 and the first U.S. President to visit Communist China in 1972.
- Roald Amundsen - the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911.
- Robert Edwin Peary - the first man to reach the North Pole in 1909.
- Robert Walpole (Sir) - Britain's first Prime Minister from 1721 - 1742.
- Roger Bannister (Dr. Sir) - the first man to run a mile in 4 minutes in 1954.
- Roscoe Robinson Jr. (Gen) - the first black in the U.S. Army to attain 4-star rank.
- Sally Ride - first U.S. woman in space aboard shuttle Columbia in 1983.
- Sidney W. Souers (Rear Admiral) - the first Director of U.S. Central Intelligence.
- Sinclair Lewis - the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
- Sun Yat Sen (Dr.) - the first President of the Republic of China (1911-12). He played a leading role in the overthrow of the Manchus Dynasty.
- Thurgood Marshall - first black Justice, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.
- Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al Haj - Malaysia's first Prime Minister.
- Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space (1963) from USSR in Vostok 6.
- Victor Emmanuel II - King of Sardinia-Piedmont and the first King of Italy, establishing Rome as capital city in 1870.
- Vinnie Ream - first woman artist to be commissioned by the U.S. Government, sculpted Lincoln Statue in Capitol at the age of 18.
- Vivian Ernest Fuchs (Sir) - the first overland crossing of Antartica in 1932.
- Warren Hastings - first Governor-General of Bengal (1773 -1785) - established the East India Company.
- Wiley Hardemann Post - the first man to fly solo around the world on 15 July 1933.
- William Caxton - His book "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy" (1475) was the first book to be printed in English.
- William Herschel - a German astronomer who first discovered Planet Uranus in 1781.
- William Thomas Cosgrave - the first President of the Irish Free State (1922 - 1932) .
- Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space in 1961 when his Vostok satellite circled the earth. He died in a plane crash.
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - the first civilian President of Pakistan (1971-1973).
Update: 21 May 2015 : Zulheimy Maamor
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