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!

Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee

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