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!

Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 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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