National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

 

 

Groups welcome!

Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee

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