National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee

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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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Letter from the ED: Dreaming Big in 2022

Dear friends, The beginning of a new year is a time for reflection, renewal, and rejuvenation.  It’s also a time to DREAM BIG about how the next 12 months can transform our lives – be that a result...

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The Board and staff at the NWHF are saddened to announce that 2011 Inductee Helen Murry Free has passed away at the age of 98. She was a pioneering chemist who worked alongside her husband to...

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Letter from the ED: Taking Time to Absorb Hope

Margaret Sánchez turned off her TV for two days following the National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She wanted time to “absorb the hope.”    I can’t imagine a higher compliment for the National Women’s Hall of Fame and its mission. At our core, we exist to...

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