National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 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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Help Us Honor the Women Who Shape Our World

Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

Your donation to the National Women’s Hall of Fame helps preserve and share the legacies of American women whose courage, vision, and leadership have transformed our history. From groundbreaking exhibits to educational programs that empower future generations, your gift fuels our mission to honor the past and light the way forward.

Give today. Because every woman’s story deserves to be heard—and remembered.

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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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NWHF Featured in Media Coverage of Seneca Falls

The recent Democratic Party presidential nomination of 2005 inductee Hillary Clinton, has brought Seneca Falls and the National Women's Hall of Fame into both the local and national media spotlights! Below are links to some recent interviews and news stories featuring...

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