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!

Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 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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