National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 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.

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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