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!

Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 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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