National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee

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