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!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 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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