National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee

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