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!

Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee

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