Devika Rani - Actress in 1970
C. Rajgopalachari was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna.
Recipient of first OISD award under individual category : Mr Biju T N of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited - Kochi Refinery
Fabio Canavaro won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2006 as he received the most votes in the selection process. During voting, each coach and captain of an international team is allocated votes to determine the recipient of the award. Canavaro was the first, and currently only, defender to receive the FIFA World Player of the Year. He is also the oldest recipient of the award.
Bob Pettit was the first recipient of the NBA's MVP award. He won the NBA All-Star Game MVP award four times. The only other player to achieve this is Kobe Bryant. Pettit was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970.
Ella Fitzgerald was one of the first-ever Grammy Award winners in 1958.
Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich, ACTRESS, in 1969
devika rani roerich
Dada Saheb Phalke Award was started in 1969. It is because it was the birth anniversary of century of Dada Saheb Phalke. He was the first director of India.
Dev Anand was honoured With Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 2002.
Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian Cinema. He is the producer and director of the first full-length Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra.
First Film-Director of India was Dada Saheb Phalke.
Tamil producer-director-writer K. Balachander received the Award in 2010.
Bhupen Hazarika; singer, music director and lyricist was the first from the NE State, Assam to get Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1992.
The father of Indian cinema is Dada Saheb Phalke. He directed the first movie of Indian cinema. The movie had no dialogues however.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969; the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb.
Dada Saheb Phalke made the first film in India in 1913. It was a silent all male cast movie that was produced in a studio in Dadar a suburb of Bombay or current day Mumbai. The movie called Raja Harishchandra and shown in only one movie hall when it was first realesed.
Raja Harishchandra was the first bollywood movie directed by Dada Saheb Phalke. It was a silent movie. It was released in 1913.