National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee

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