National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee

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