National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee

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