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.

Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 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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