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.

Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
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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Help Us Honor the Women Who Shape Our World

Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

Your donation to the National Women’s Hall of Fame helps preserve and share the legacies of American women whose courage, vision, and leadership have transformed our history. From groundbreaking exhibits to educational programs that empower future generations, your gift fuels our mission to honor the past and light the way forward.

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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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