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!

Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 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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