National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee

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