National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee

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