National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 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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