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!

Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 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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