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!

Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 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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