The First Rank, sometimes rendered as simply the first rank, was one of the various Time Lord ranks. (TV: The Brain of Morbius, AUDIO: The Eleven, etc.) Notably, First Time Lord was a title held by the leader of the Time Lord hierarchy, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon) and Morbius, who claimed the title when facing the Fourth Doctor, was a former President himself. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)

By one account, Susan Foreman's father was a Time Lord of the first rank and a Cardinal. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

The Old Master also claimed to Shok'Arl that he was "a Time Lord of the first rank". (PROSE: First Frontier)

Retro-regeneration, the re-visiting of previous incarnations, was said to have only been attempted by Time Lords of the First Rank. (PROSE: State of Change)

Morbius, who had once been Lord President, claimed to be a "Time Lord of the First Rank" (TV: The Brain of Morbius) as did the Master. (PROSE: First Frontier)

On an alternate Gallifrey, Prydon told Romana II she was truly a "Gallifreyan of the First Rank." (AUDIO: Annihilation)