National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee

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