National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 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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