Padmini Prakash is a Indian trans woman who is a news anchor, actor and transgender rights activist. She made history by becoming the first Indian trans person to be a news anchor in the Tamil channel Lotus News Channel on 15 August 2014.
Padmini Rout is an Indian chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time National Women's Premier title holder consecutively from 2014-2017 and was the Asian women's champion of 2018.
Padmini Ramachandran (1932 – 2006) was an Indian actress and trained Bharatanatyam dancer, who acted in over 250 Indian films. She acted in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Russian language films. Padmini, with her elder sister Lalitha and her younger sister Ragini, were called the "Travancore sisters".