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Protoplast (religion) A protoplast, from ancient Greek (''prōtóplastos'', "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of Human, humankind (as in Adam and Eve or Manu (Hi ...

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Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

, the first people in Abrahamic mythology **

Fuxi Fuxi or Fu Hsi ( zh, c=伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie syste ...

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Nüwa Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. She is a goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. She is credited with creating humani ...

, the first people born in some Chinese myths **

Swayambhuva Manu Svayambhuva Manu () is the first of the fourteen Manus, the first man of a Yuga in Hindu cosmogony. He is the manasaputra (mind-born son) of Brahma and husband of Shatarupa, the first woman.Shatarupa Shatarupa () is the daughter of the creator deity, Brahma. According to '' Brahma Purana'', Shatarupa is regarded as the first woman to be created by Brahma, marrying Manu, the first man. Their descendants are called ''manushya'', the Sanskri ...

, the first couple in Hindu mythology *

Early human ''Homo'' () is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus ''Australopithecus'' and encompasses only a single extant species, ''Homo sapiens'' (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called ...

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Homo erectus ''Homo erectus'' ( ) is an extinction, extinct species of Homo, archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years. It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and human gait, gait, to early expansions of h ...

'', the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and movement

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* "First Man" (song), by Camila Cabello from the album ''Romance'', 2020 * '' First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong'', the official biography of Neil Armstrong, 2005 ** ''First Man'' (film), an adaptation of the biography, 2018 * '' The First Man'', Albert Camus's unfinished final novel, 1994 ** ''The First Man'' (film), an adaptation of the novel, 2011 * First Men, the name of the extant human species in Olaf Stapledon's ''

Last and First Men ''Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future'' is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from t ...

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The First Men "The First Men" is a 1960 science fiction short story by American writer Howard Fast. It was first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' in February 1960. It was later printed bundled with "The Martian Shop" (1959) in ''Th ...

'', a short story by Howard Fast, 1960 * The First Men, the initial human settlers of Westeros in the ''

A Song of Ice and Fire ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the ser ...

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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in each state. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their sta ...

Thurgood Marshall Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme C ...

(1908–1993), the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States *

List of LGBTQ firsts by year This list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) firsts by year denotes pioneering LGBTQ endeavors organized chronologically. Openly LGBTQ people remain a Demographic profile, demographic minority in most places. In areas that ...

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Princeps ''Princeps'' (plural: ''Principes'') is a Latin word meaning "first in time or order; the first, foremost, chief, the most eminent, distinguished, or noble; the first person". As a title, ''Princeps'' originated in the Roman Republic wherein the ...

'', a Latin word meaning "the first person" * '' The First Man in Rome'', a historical fiction novel by Colleen McCullough, 1990 * '' The Second Man'', a crime novel by Edward Grierson, 1956 *

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful Human spaceflight, crewed sp ...

(1934–1968), the first man to journey into outer space {{Disambiguation

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