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!

Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee

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