
The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) is an American institution founded to honor and recognize women. It was incorporated in 1969 in
Seneca Falls, New York, and first inducted honorees in 1973.
As of 2024, the Hall has honored 312 inductees.
Inductees are nominated by members of the public and selected by a panel of judges on the basis of the changes attributed to the honoree, that affect the social, economic or cultural aspects of society; the significant national or global impact; as well as, the enduring value of their achievements. Induction ceremonies are held every odd- numbered year in the fall, with the names of the women to be honored announced earlier in the spring, usually during March,
Women's History Month.
The NWHF is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization funded by philanthropy, admissions, and other income.
In July 2021, Jennifer Gabriel was named executive director.
Location
The National Women's Hall of Fame was hosted by
Eisenhower College until 1979/1980, when the organization rented out a historic bank building in the Seneca Falls Historic District. The historic bank was renovated to house the NWHF's permanent exhibit, historical artifacts, and offices.
In August 2020, the National Women's Hall of Fame opened its door to the third and final home: the historic Seneca Knitting Mill, which resides across the canal of the
Women's Rights National Historical Park which includes the Wesleyan Chapel where the
1848 women's rights convention took place, an event that kickstarted the women's rights movement in America.
This renovation and move into the historic Seneca Knitting Mill took several years to accomplish.
In 2014, the organization's board undertook a $20 million capital campaign to fund the development of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill, which is associated with the
abolitionist movement and with the birthplace of women's rights.
The move and completion of Phase 1 doubled the size of the National Women's Hall of Fame. campaigning for Phase 2: an elevator, additional staircase, and other renovations was underway. Once the Homecoming Campaign is complete, the historic Seneca Knitting Mill will quadruple the available space to , including exhibit space, offices, and meeting space for conferences, wedding receptions, and community events.
Inductees
A–J
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Faye Glenn Abdellah, nursing pioneer
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Bella Abzug, politician
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Abigail Adams, former First Lady
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Jane Addams
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860May 21, 1935) was an American Settlement movement, settlement activist, Social reform, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of s ...
, activist and sociologist
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political science, political scientist who served as the 64th United States Secretary of State, United S ...
, former Secretary of State
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Tenley Albright, figure skater
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Louisa May Alcott
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, author
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Florence E. Allen, first woman to serve of the Ohio Supreme Court
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Gloria Allred, attorney
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Linda Alvarado, construction executive
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Dorothy H. Andersen, redearcher who named cystic fribrosis
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Marian Anderson, African-American contralto
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Ethel Percy Andrus, founder of the AARP
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credi ...
, poet and activist
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Susan B. Anthony, women's rights activist
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Virginia Apgar, physician who invented the Apgar score
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Ella Baker, civil rights activist
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Lucille Ball
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, actress
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Ann Bancroft
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Clara Barton
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Eleanor K. Baum
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Ruth Fulton Benedict
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Antoinette Blackwell
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Emily Blackwell
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Amelia Bloomer
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Nellie Bly
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Louise Bourgeois
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Margaret Bourke-White
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Lydia Moss Bradley
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Myra Bradwell
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Mary Carson Breckinridge
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Ruby Bridges
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Nancy Brinker
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Pearl S. Buck
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Betty Bumpers
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Charlotte Bunch
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Octavia Butler
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* St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
* Mary Steichen Calderone
*]Annie Jump Cannon
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*Rachel Carson
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* Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
* Mary Ann Shadd Cary
*Mary Cassatt
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*Willa Cather
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* Carrie Chapman Catt
* Judy Chicago
* Julia Child
* Lydia Maria Child
* Shirley Chisholm
*Hillary Clinton
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* Jacqueline Cochran
* Mildred Cohn
*Bessie Coleman
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* Eileen Collins
* Ruth Colvin
* Rita Rossi Colwell
* Joan Ganz Cooney
* Mother Marianne Cope
* Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
* Jane Cunningham Croly
* Matilda Cuomo
*Angela Davis
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* Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
* Dorothy Day
* Marian de Forest
* Donna de Varona
* Karen DeCrow
* Sarah Deer
* Emma Smith DeVoe
*Emily Dickinson
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*Dorothea Dix
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* Elizabeth Hanford Dole
* Marjory Stoneman Douglas
* St. Katharine Drexel
* Anne Dallas Dudley
* Mary Barret Dyer
*Amelia Earhart
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* Sylvia A. Earle
* Catherine Shipe East
* Crystal Eastman
*Mary Baker Eddy
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* Marian Wright Edelman
* Gertrude Ederle
* Gertrude Belle Elion
* Dorothy Harrison Eustis
* Alice C. Evans
* Geraldine Ferraro
*Ella Fitzgerald
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*Jane Fonda
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* Betty Ford
* Loretta C. Ford
* Abby Kelley Foster
*Aretha Franklin
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* Helen Murray Free
* Betty Friedan
* Margaret Fuller
* Matilda Joslyn Gage
* Ina May Gaskin
* Althea Gibson
* Lillian Moller Gilbreth
*Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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*Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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* Maria Goeppert Mayer
* Katharine Graham
* Martha Graham
* Temple Grandin
* Ella T. Grasso
* Marcia Greenberger
* Martha Wright Griffiths
* Sarah Grimké
* Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
* Mary Hallaren
* Rebecca S. Halstead
* Fannie Lou Hamer
* Alice Hamilton
*Mia Hamm
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*Lorraine Hansberry
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* Joy Harjo
* Martha Matilda Harper
* Patricia Roberts Harris
*Helen Hayes
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* Dorothy Height
* Beatrice Hicks
* Barbara Hillary
* Oveta Culp Hobby, second woman to serve in the Cabinet
* Barbara Holdridge, recording executive
*Billie Holiday
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, singer
* Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
* Jeanne Holm, first female Two-Star General in the United States
* Bertha Holt, adoption advocate
* Grace Murray Hopper, naval officer
*Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe ( ; May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to an existing song, and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclamation. She w ...
, abolitionist
* Emily Howland, philanthropist who supported women's rights and the temperance movement
* Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the NFWA
* Helen LaKelly Hunt, writer
* Swanee Hunt, former Ambassador to Austria
* Zora Neale Hurston, author and filmmaker
*Anne Hutchinson
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, early female preacher
* Barbara Iglewski, microbiologist
* Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist
* Victoria Jackson, cosmetics entrepreneur
* Mary Jacobi, first female pharmacist in the United States
* Frances Wisebart Jacobs, philanthropist who funded the founding of United Way
*Mae Jemison
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, astronaut and doctor
* Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
* Barbara Rose Johns, civil rights activist
* Mary Harris Jones, labor organizer
* Barbara Jordan, lawyer and educator
K–Z
* Helen Keller
* Leontine T. Kelly
* Susan Kelly-Dreiss
* Frances Oldham Kelsey
* Nannerl Keohane
* Jean Kilbourne
*Billie Jean King
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* Coretta Scott King
* Julie Krone
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
*Maggie Kuhn
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* Stephanie L. Kwolek
* Henrietta Lacks
* Susette La Flesche
* Winona LaDuke
* Carlotta Walls LaNier
* Dorothea Lange
* Sherry Lansing
* Allie B. Latimer
* Emma Lazarus
* Lilly Ledbetter
* Mildred Robbins Leet
* Maya Lin
*Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Raised in Englewood, New Jerse ...
* Patricia Locke
* Belva Lockwood
* Juliette Gordon Low
* Clare Boothe Luce
* Shannon W. Lucid
*Mary Lyon
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* Mary Mahoney
* Nicole Malachowski
* Wilma Mankiller
* Philippa Marrack
*Barbara McClintock
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* Katharine Dexter McCormick
* Louise McManus
*Margaret Mead
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She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard Col ...
* Barbara Mikulski
*Kate Millett
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* Patsy Takemoto Mink
* Maria Mitchell
*Toni Morrison
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* Constance Baker Motley
*Lucretia Mott
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* Kate Mullany
* Aimee Mullins
* Carol Mutter
* Indra Nooyi
* Antonia Novello
* Sandra Day O'Connor
* Georgia O'Keeffe
* Rose O'Neill
* Annie Oakley
*Michelle Obama
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*Rosa Parks
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* Ruth Patrick
*Alice Paul
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*Nancy Pelosi
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* Mary Engle Pennington
*Frances Perkins
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* Rebecca Talbot Perkins
* Esther Peterson
* Judith L. Pipher
*Jeannette Rankin
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*Janet Reno
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* Ellen Swallow Richards
* Linda Richards
* Sally Ride
* Rozanne L. Ridgway
* Edith Nourse Rogers
* Mary Joseph Rogers
*Eleanor Roosevelt
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* Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
* Sister Elaine Roulet
* Janet Rowley
* Wilma Rudolph
* Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
* Mary Harriman Rumsey
* Florence Sabin
* Sacagawea
* Bernice Sandler
*Margaret Sanger
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* Katherine Siva Saubel
* Betty Bone Schiess
* Ann Schonberger
* Patricia Schroeder
* Anna Schwartz
* Felice N. Schwartz
* Blanche Stuart Scott
* Florence B. Seibert
* Elizabeth Ann Seton
* Donna Shalala
* Anna Howard Shaw
* Catherine Filene Shouse
* Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
* Muriel Siebert
* Beverly Sills
* Louise Slaughter
* Eleanor Smeal
*Bessie Smith
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* Margaret Chase Smith
* Sophia Smith
* Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
* Susan Solomon
*Sonia Sotomayor
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*Laurie Spiegel
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*Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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*Gloria Steinem
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* Helen Stephens
* Nettie Stevens
*Lucy Stone
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* Kate Stoneman
*Harriet Beecher Stowe
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* Harriet Williams Russell Strong
* Anne Sullivan
* Kathrine Switzer
* Henrietta Szold
* Mary Burnett Talbert
*Maria Tallchief
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*Ida Tarbell
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* Helen Brooke Taussig
* Mary Church Terrell
* Sojourner Truth
* Harriet Tubman
* Wilma Vaught
* Diane von Furstenberg
* Florence Schorske Wald
* Lillian Wald
* Madam C. J. Walker
* Mary Edwards Walker
* Emily Howell Warner
* Mercy Otis Warren
* Alice Waters
* Faye Wattleton
* Annie Dodge Wauneka
* Ida Wells-Barnett
* Eudora Welty
* Edith Wharton
* Sheila E. Widnall
* Emma Willard
* Frances Willard
*Serena Williams
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*Oprah Winfrey
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* Sarah Winnemucca
* Flossie Wong-Staal
* Victoria Woodhull
* Fanny Wright
* Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
* Chien-Shiung Wu
* Rosalyn Yalow
* Gloria Yerkovich
* Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
References
External links
Brief biographies of the women who will next be inducted
National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls
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