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!

Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 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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