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!

Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee

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