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!

Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 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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