National Women's Hall of Fame Members

These women are commemorated for their important historical roles by the only national institute that honors American women, located in historical Seneca Falls, New York.

• Abigail Adams (born 1744, died 1818)

  American first lady.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Alice Evans (born 1881, died 1975)

  American scientist. Her discovery of the organism that causes undulant fever led to mandatory milk pasteurization.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Alice Paul (born 1885, died 1977)

  American suffragist who founded the Women's Party.

  • Member of the National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Amelia Bloomer (born 1818, died 1894)

  American feminist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Amelia Earhart (Putnam) (born 1898, died 1937)

  First female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. Disappeared, with her navigator, during an attempt to circle the globe.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ann Bancroft (born 1955)

  American arctic and antarctic explorer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Anne Dallas Dudley (born 1876, died 1955)

  American suffragist and civic leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Anne Hutchinson (born 1591, died 1643)

  Antinomian who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after insisting on her religious freedom.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Annie Jump Cannon (born 1863, died 1941)

  American astronomer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Annie Oakley (born 1860, died 1926)

  American sharpshooter who performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and raised funds for women's higher education. She inspired Irving Berlin's musical, 'Annie Get Your Gun,' featuring the song 'There's No Business Like Show Business.'

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Antoinette Blackwell (born 1825, died 1921)

  American religious leader and educator. One of the first American women to receive a college education.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Antonia Novello (born 1944)

  American physician. First female (and first Hispanic) surgeon general of the United States.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Barbara Charline Jordan (born 1936, died 1996)

  American lawyer, legislator and professor. The first African-American woman elected to Congress by a Southern state.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Bella Abzug (born 1920, died 1998)

  American politician. The first Jewish woman to serve in Congress.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Belva Lockwood (born 1830, died 1917)

  American lawyer and suffragist. First woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (1879).

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Bessie Smith (born 1894, died 1937)

  American blues singer and songwriter.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Betty Friedan (born 1921)

  American author and feminist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Betty Bone Schiess

  American priest and feminist. One of the first women to be ordained by the Episcopal church (1974).

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Sarah Breedlove Walker (born 1867, died 1919)

  American businesswoman and philanthropist. The daughter of former slaves, she founded her own hair-products company and became America's first black female millionaire.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Carrie Chapman Catt (born 1859, died 1947)

  American suffragette.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Catherine East (born 1916, died 1996)

  American women's rights leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Clara Barton (born 1821, died 1912)

  American educator. Founded the American Red Cross in 1882.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Constance Baker Motley (born 1921)

  American lawyer, jurist and politician. The first African-American woman to sit on the federal bench (1966).

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Dolores Huerta (born 1932)

  American labor organizer. Co-founder of the United Farm Workers.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Dorothea Dix (born 1802, died 1887)

  American philanthropist, teacher and crusader for the mentally ill.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Dorothy Irene Height (born 1912)

  American civil-rights leader. President of the National Council of Negro Women.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Elaine Roulet (born 1930)

  American nun known for her work with children whose mothers are incarcerated.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (born 1884, died 1962)

  American author, lecturer, social activist and first lady. Niece of President Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (born 1815, died 1902)

  American suffragette and writer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ella Baker (born 1903, died 1986)

  American civil-rights leader who was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ellen Swallow Richards (born 1842, died 1911)

  American chemist and educator.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Emily Dickinson (born 1830, died 1886)

  Reclusive American poet whose radical poetic style anticipated the modernist movement.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Esther Peterson (born 1906)

  American social activist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ethel Percy Andrus (born 1884, died 1967)

  Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Fannie Lou Hamer (born 1917, died 1977)

  American sharecropper who helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Party.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Fanny Wright (born 1795, died 1852)

  American reformer who scandalized the country with her lectures on birth control and women's rights.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Faye Wattleton (born 1943)

  American nurse. First African-American president of the Planned Parenthood Foundation.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Florence Seibert (born 1897, died 1991)

  American scientist who developed a test for tuberculosis.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Frances Wisebart-Jacobs (born 1843, died 1892)

  American social activist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Frances Perkins (born 1882, died 1965)

  American social worker and public official. The first woman to hold a U.S. Cabinet post. Original name: Fannie Coralie Perkins.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Georgia O'Keeffe (born 1887, died 1986)

  American painter.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Gertrude Belle Elion (born 1918, died 1999)

  American pharmacologist who, with George Hitchings, developed several important drugs for the treatment of disease.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Gloria Steinem (born 1934)

  American feminist, journalist and author.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Gloria Yerkovich (born 1942)

  Founder of CHILD FIND, an American organization that works to locate missing children.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Grace Murray Hopper (born 1906, died 1992)

  American admiral, mathematician and computing pioneer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Gwendolyn Brooks (born 1917, died 2000)

  American poet.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Hannah Greenebaum Solomon (born 1858, died 1942)

  American reformer. Founded the National Council of Jewish Women.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Harriet Tubman (born 1820, died 1913)

  American abolitionist known for her work on the ''underground railroad.''

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (born 1811, died 1896)

  American novelist, abolitionist, and social reformer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Helen Stephens (born 1918, died 1993)

  American track and field athlete.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Helen Hunt (born 1949)

  American philanthropist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Helen A. Keller (born 1880, died 1968)

  American author and lecturer. Left blind and deaf by an illness at the age of 19 months.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Helen Brooke Taussig (born 1898, died 1986)

  American physician who pioneered pediatric cardiology.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (born 1862, died 1931)

  American journalist and social reformer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Jane Addams (born 1860, died 1935)

  American social reformer and peace advocate. Ran Hull House, 1889-1935.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Jane Cunningham Croly (born 1829, died 1901)

  American editor and columnist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Jeannette Rankin (born 1880, died 1973)

  American suffragist and political leader. The first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (born 1842, died 1924)

  African-American suffragist and abolitionist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Juliette Gordon Low (born 1860, died 1927)

  Founder of the Girl Scouts of America.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Katherine Siva Saubel (born 1920)

  Native American ethnoanthropologist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Lillian Wald (born 1867, died 1940)

  American nurse and social worker who founded the Henry Street Settlement.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth (born 1878, died 1972)

  American engineer and author known for her time-and-motion studies.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Louise McManus (born 1896, died 1993)

  American nurse who promoted the study of nursing at institutes of higher education.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Lucretia Mott (born 1793, died 1880)

  American abolitionist and feminist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Lucy Stone (born 1818, died 1893)

  American suffragette and editor.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Maggie Kuhn (born 1905, died 1995)

  American social reformer who founded the Gray Panthers.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Margaret Fuller (born 1810, died 1850)

  American critic and social reformer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Margaret Chase Smith (born 1897, died 1995)

  American legislator.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Margaret Sanger (born 1883, died 1966)

  American nurse and writer who started the U.S. birth-control movement.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Margaret Mead (born 1901, died 1978)

  American anthropologist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Marian Anderson (born 1902, died 1993)

  American singer. First African-American member of the Metropolitan Opera Company (1955). Performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Martha Wright Griffiths (born 1912)

  American legislator.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Harris ''Mother'' Jones (born 1830, died 1930)

  Irish-born American labor leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary McLeod Bethune (born 1875, died 1955)

  American educator. Daughter of former slaves who founded a college for black women and led the National Council of Negro Women.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Breckinridge (born 1881, died 1965)

  American nurse and midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Jacobi (born 1842, died 1906)

  American physician and medical educator.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Lyon (born 1797, died 1849)

  American educator who founded Mt. Holyoke, the first women's college, in 1837.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Mahoney (born 1845, died 1926)

  The first professionally trained African-American nurse.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Baker Eddy (born 1821, died 1910)

  American theologian and religious leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Matilda Joslyn Gage (born 1826, died 1898)

  American suffragist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias (Babe Didrikson) (born 1913, died 1956)

  American athlete who excelled in golf, track, basketball and baseball.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Myra Bradwell (born 1831, died 1894)

  America's first female lawyer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Nannerl O. Keohane (born 1940)

  American educator who has headed both Wellesley College and Duke University.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Zora Neale Hurston (born 1903, died 1960)

  American novelist, short-story writer and folklorist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Pearl S. Buck (born 1892, died 1973)

  American novelist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Rosa L. Parks (born 1913)

  American civil-rights leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Rosalyn S. Yalow (born 1921)

  American physicist who developed a technique for measuring small concentrations of substances in the blood.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ruth Colvin (born 1916)

  Founder of the Literacy Volunteers of America.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Sandra Day O' Connor (born 1930)

  First woman to become a United States Supreme Court justice.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Sarah Winnemucca (born 1844, died 1891)

  Paiute woman who fought for the restoration of land to Native Americans.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Sojourner Truth (died 1883)

  American, born into slavery, who became a powerful voice in the call for equal rights for blacks and women. Original name: Isabella Hardenberg.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Susan B. Anthony (born 1820, died 1906)

  American abolitionist and feminist leader.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Susette La Flesche (born 1854, died 1903)

  American lecturer, artist and author who fought for the rights of Native Americans.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Virginia Apgar

  American physician.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Willa Cather (born 1873, died 1947)

  American novelist and short-story writer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Wilma Rudolph (born 1940, died 1994)

  American athlete.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Alice Hamilton (born 1869, died 1970)

  American physician who founded the field of occupational medicine.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Florence Rena Sabin (born 1871, died 1953)

  American medical researcher.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Sally K. Ride (born 1951)

  American astronaut. The first American woman in space.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mae Carol Jemison (born 1956)

  American physician, engineer and astronaut. First African-American woman in space.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Eileen Marie Collins (born 1956)

  American astronaut. The first female space-shuttle pilot (1995).

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Barbara McClintock (born 1902, died 1992)

  American geneticist noted for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1953)

  American actress and television personality.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Helen Hayes (born 1900, died 1993)

  American actress.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Mary Cassatt (born 1844, died 1926)

  American painter best known for her Impressionist paintings of women and children.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Margaret Bourke-White (born 1906, died 1971)

  American photographer. Produced USSR, A Portfolio of Photographs.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Maria Mitchell (born 1818, died 1905)

  American astronomer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Elizabeth Blackwell (born 1821, died 1907)

  American physician, writer and teacher.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Wilma Mankiller (born 1945)

  Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Elizabeth Hanford Dole (born 1936)

  American government official. Holder of two cabinet posts, and president of the American Red Cross. Wife of politician Bob Dole.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (born 1860, died 1935)

  American writer and feminist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939)

  American lawyer and civil-rights activist. President of the Children's Defense Fund.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ella Fitzgerald (born 1918, died 1996)

  American jazz singer.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Billie Jean King (born 1943)

  American tennis player.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Patricia S. Schroeder (born 1940)

  American politician. First woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Ella T. Grasso (born 1919, died 1981)

  American politician. Governor of Connecticut from 1975-80, she was the first female governor in the U.S. elected in her own right rather than being chosen to succeed her husband.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born 1935)

  American politician. As Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984, she was the first female vice-presidential candidate from a major U.S. party.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Shirley A. Chisholm (born 1924)

  American politician. The first African-American woman elected to Congress.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Rachel Louise Carson (born 1907, died 1964)

  American biologist, environmentalist and writer. Her books were among the first to draw attention to human environmental devastation.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Muriel Siebert (born 1932)

  American businesswoman. Founder of the Muriel Siebert & Co. brokerage house.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Linda Richards (born 1841, died 1930)

  American nurse.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Nettie Maria Stevens (born 1861, died 1912)

  American biologist.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame
• Emily Blackwell (born 1826, died 1910)

  American physician and medical educator. Sister of physician Elizabeth Blackwell.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame