First man or woman may refer to:
- The spouse of an elected head of state, see First Lady, First Gentleman.
- First Man, the biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
- The earliest anatomically modern human remains Homo sapiens idaltu
- The first person created in one of the religious or mythical accounts of creation (see list below).
Various creation myths describe the legendary first human. In theology and literary studies, the word protoplasts is used as a technical term for the first people in this sense. In each case it can be either male, female, or a couple.
Famous quotes containing the words man and/or woman:
“As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“As a jewel of gold in a swines snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 11:22.