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!

Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee

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