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!

Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee

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