National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee

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