National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee

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