National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee

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