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!

Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
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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