Padmavathy Ananthagopalan (born 12 July 1934) is a classical musician and veena maestro from India, in the Carnatic Music genre.
She is also the founder of the Sri Satguru Sangita music school and has over 25 years of active teaching service through the institution.
Her elder brother was the late violin maestro, vocalist and composer Padma Bhushan Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.
Padmavathy plays the veena in the "gayaki" style wherein she delivers the nuances in the musical instrument like in the vocal rendition.
Vidhwan S. Balachander was a huge influence on her and she considered him to be her "Manaseeka" guru (meaning reverentially within one's mind).
She has set to tune and Sanskrit works such as Lalita Sahasranamam, Saundaryalahari, Mooka panchasati for the benefit of her students.
She authored and published two books Shadjam and Rishabam in collaboration with the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society for students of music.
Based on the suggestion given by vidhwan S Balachander, she established a school exclusively for music in 1988 known as Sri Sadguru Sangita Vidyalaya at Anna Nagar.