First man or woman explained

First man may refer to:

• Protoplasts, a technical term for the legendary first people of any creation myth, including a list of first men and women in different traditions
  • Adam and Eve, the first people in Abrahamic religions (Adam and Hawa in Islam; Adam and Chava in Judaism)
  • Manu (Hinduism) and Shatarupa, the first people in Indian religions
• The first human or human species, see human evolution
  • Homo erectus, oldest known humanoid species
  • Neanderthal, species of primitive hominids

Media

• , the 2005 official biography of American astronaut Neil Armstrong
  • First Man (film), a 2018 film adaptation of the biography
• The First Man, Albert Camus' unfinished final novel, published in 1994
  • The First Man (film), the 2011 film adaptation of the novel
• The First Men, the initial human settlers of Westeros in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
• First Men, name of the extant human species in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
• "First Man" (song), a 2019 song by Camila Cabello from her album Romance

See also

• Anatomically modern human
• Archaic humans
• Dawn man (disambiguation)
• Early man (disambiguation)
• Eponymous founder
• First lady or First gentleman, an honorary title borne by the spouse or partner of an elected head of state
• First woman (disambiguation)
• List of countries and islands by first human settlement
• Most recent common ancestor of humans
  • Mitochondrial Eve, the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans
  • Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living men
• Primus inter pares, a first among equals
• Princeps, the title of Roman emperors