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!

Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 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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