National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee

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Letter from the ED: Uplifting Women’s Voices

This isn’t the start to the “In Her Words” message I intended to write. This week marks my one year anniversary with the National Women’s Hall of Fame and my first draft began with a reflection from...

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Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened to learn of the passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Korbel Albright. “As a refugee whose family fled first from the Nazis and later from the Communists,...

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