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!

Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee

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