First Man or Woman

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:

    When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    I did not know the woman I would be
    nor that blood would bloom in me
    each month like an exotic flower,
    nor that children,
    two monuments,
    would break from between my legs....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)