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!

Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee

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