National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee

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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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