National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee

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