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!

Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 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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