National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee

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