National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee

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