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!

Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee

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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital...

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Hall Mourns Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Bernice Resnick Sandler Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully at her home in Washington, DC, on Saturday January 5, 2019. She was 90. A high-spirited and highly effective advocate for women’s equality for more than 50 years, Dr....

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