Article Detail Who was the first man to compile the Encyclopaedia ? Answer: Aspheosis Similar Questions : 1. Who was First secretary general of United Nations ? Answer: Trigve Li 2. Who was the first person to sail around the world ? Answer: Ferdinand Magellan 3. Who was first to won Nobel Prize for Medicine ? Answer: A.E. Wonn Behrig of Germany 4. Name of first Men to climb Mt. Everest ? Answer: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953) 5. Who was first European Invader of Indian Soil ? Answer: Alexander 6. Who was the first person to win the Nobel prize for Peace ? Answer: Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland)and Frederic Peiry (France) 7. First men to fly an aeroplane ? Answer: Wright Brothers Read more from - First in World