National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 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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Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

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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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