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 Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 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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