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:
“There was an old man of Thermopylae,
Who never did anything properly;”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)
“The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every woman in the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.”
—Jane Rule (b. 1931)