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:
“I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“... when you do get a job everybody says, “Well, they wanted a black woman,” which necessarily puts you on a level where you have to prove yourself above being a woman and being black.... Now, I would say, in certain situations, it helped me simply because I was mildly attractive, not because I was black or a woman. That gets you more mileage than anything else.... God help you if you’re not an attractive woman.”
—Theresa Brown (b. 1957)