Padmini Rout (born 1994) is a chess prodigy from Orissa, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of World Under-14 girl's championship, 2008.She also has won five Asian and four national titles.
Padmini Rout started playing chess at the age of nine (2003) because of her father's passion for the game. No wonder many parents in Orissa want their offspring take to chess and numerous children dream of becoming the next Padmini. No wonder Padmini is seen as another Konneru Humpy of India, Maia Ch­iburdanidze of Georgia and Judith Polgar of Hungary in the making. No wonder the media is projecting her as a star like Dilip Tirkey, Debasis Mohanty, Shiv Sundar Das, Anuradha Biswal and Sradhanjali Samantaray. And no wonder the All In­dia Chess Federation Ex. secretary D V Sundar describes her as “the darling of the game.”
She was honoured with the Ekalavya Award by Orissa Government in 2009.

Achievements
She was the Asian Youth Girls Chess Champion in 2005 and 2006
National U13 Girls Chess Champion in 2006
The World U14 (Girls) Champion in 2008
The Continental Asian Junior Girls Champion in 2009
Third position in the Asian Junior (Girls U20) championship 2010
Third position in the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2010)
She participated in the girl's World Junior Chess Championship 2010 and finished third.
In 2011. She finished third in the Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011.