National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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