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 Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 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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