National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 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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