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!

Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 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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