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.

Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 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.

Give today. Because every woman’s story deserves to be heard—and remembered.

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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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