National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee

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