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!

Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee

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