National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 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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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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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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