National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee

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