National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee

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