National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee

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