National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 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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