Article Detail Name of First Woman Prime Minister of a Country ? Answer: Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka) Similar Questions : 1. Which country won first World Cup Football ? Answer: Uruguay in 1930 2. Name of the first man to go into the space ? Answer: Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) 3. First President of United States of America ? Answer: George Washington 4. Who was first to won Nobel Prize for Medicine ? Answer: A.E. Wonn Behrig of Germany 5. Who was the first man to compile the Encyclopaedia ? Answer: Aspheosis 6. Who was the first person to sail around the world ? Answer: Ferdinand Magellan 7. Who was first woman to climb Mount Everest ? Answer: Junko Tabei (Japan) Read more from - First in World