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!

Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 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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