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!

Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee

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