National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee

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