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!

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee

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