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.

Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee

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