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!

Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee

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