National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee

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