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!

Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 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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