National Women's Hall of Fame

Historical Heroes

Located on the site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York * Created in 1969 * Missing: Florence Sabin (1973) * Florence B. Seibert (1990) * Ethel Percy Andrus (1993) * Gloria Yerkovich (1993) * Antoinette Blackwell (1993) * Myra Bradwell (1994) * Fanny Wright (1994) * Betty Bone Schiess (1994) * Mary Breckinridge (1995) * Hannah Greenebaum Solomon (1995) * Charlotte Anne Bunch (1996) * Mary Steichen Calderone (1998) * Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1998) * Lydia Moss Bradley (1998) * Felice N. Schwartz (1998) * Faye Glenn Abdellah (2000) * Sophie Smith (2000) * Annie Dodge Wauneka (2000) * Harriet Williams Russell Strong (2001) * Emily Howell Warner (2001) * Dorothy H. Andersen (2001) * Mary Eagle Pennington (2002) * Sheila E. Widnall (2003) * Linda G. Alvarado (2003) * Florence Ellinwood Allen (2005) * Blanche Stuart Scott (2005) * Mary Burnett Talbert (2005) * Betty Bumpers (2005) * Elanor Baum (2007) * Martha Coffin Pelham Wright (2007) * Henrietta Szold (2007) * Catherine Filene Shouse (2007) * Kate Stoneman (2009) * Rebecca Talbot Perkins (2009) * Susan Solomon (2009) * Ruth Patrick (2009) * Kathrine Switzer (2011) * Emma Hart Willard (2013) * Anna Jacobson Schwartz (2013) * Bernice Resnick Sandler (2013) * Mary Harriman Rumsey (2015) * Janet Rowley (2017) * Rose O'Neil (2019) * Barbara Hillary (2020) * Barbara Rose Johns Powell (2020) * Patricia Bath (2023) * Elouise Cobell (2023) * Kimberle Crenshaw (2023) * Peggy Mcintosh (2023) * Judith Plaskow (2023) * Loretta Ross (2023) * Sandy Stone (2023) * Anna Wessels Williams (2023)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

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38

0

Seneca Falls, New York

Location

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

41

1973

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady

48.12% (141 of 293 votes)

49

1973

Marian Anderson

Vocalist

33.75% (27 of 80 votes)

55

1973

Harriet Tubman

Slave

33.06% (41 of 124 votes)

62

1973

Helen Keller

Advocate

31.71% (26 of 82 votes)

63

1973

Jane Addams

Advocate

31.65% (25 of 79 votes)

64

1973

Amelia Earhart

Aviator

31.30% (36 of 115 votes)

66

1973

Susan B. Anthony

Advocate

30.77% (28 of 91 votes)

67

1973

Clara Barton

Nurse

30.56% (22 of 72 votes)

84

1973

Pearl S. Buck

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

85

1973

Helen Hayes

Actress

0% (0 of 2 votes)

86

1973

Mary McLeod Bethune

Educator

0% (0 of 2 votes)

87

1973

Helen B. Taussig

Doctor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

135

1973

Emily Dickinson

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

142

1973

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

147

1973

Margaret Chase Smith

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

143

1975

Virginia Apgar

Doctor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

1

1976

Abigail Adams

First Lady

100% (3 of 3 votes)

144

1976

Margaret Mead

Scientist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

140

1979

Dorothea Dix

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

141

1979

Alice Paul

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

1981

Margaret Sanger

Sex Researcher

57.89% (77 of 133 votes)

56

1981

Sojourner Truth

Advocate

32.58% (29 of 89 votes)

139

1982

Frances Perkins

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

145

1983

Belva Ann Lockwood

Attorney

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

1984

Bessie Smith

Vocalist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

132

1984

Mother Jones

Advocate

0% (0 of 2 votes)

88

1986

Barbara McClintock

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

133

1986

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Advocate

0% (0 of 9 votes)

134

1986

Lucy Stone

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

57

1988

Sally Ride

Astronaut

32.58% (29 of 89 votes)

89

1988

Gwendolyn Brooks

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

128

1988

Willa Cather

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

129

1988

Ida B. Wells

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

1990

Billie Jean King

Tennis Player

53.26% (49 of 92 votes)

130

1990

Margaret Bourke-White

Photographer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

131

1990

Barbara Jordan

U.S. Congressman

0% (0 of 3 votes)

8

1993

Helen Stephens

Athlete

100% (4 of 4 votes)

9

1993

Alice Hamilton

Doctor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

18

1993

Wilma Mankiller

Native American Icon

100% (1 of 1 votes)

42

1993

Constance Baker Motley

Judge

46.15% (6 of 13 votes)

50

1993

Shirley Chisholm

U.S. Congressman

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

51

1993

Mae Jemison

Astronaut

33.33% (28 of 84 votes)

52

1993

Annie Oakley

Cowgirl

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

53

1993

Marian Wright Edelman

Advocate

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

68

1993

Rosa Parks

Advocate

30.08% (40 of 133 votes)

70

1993

Gloria Steinem

Publisher

30.0% (3 of 10 votes)

72

1993

Betty Friedan

Advocate

28.57% (2 of 7 votes)

75

1993

Jeanette Rankin

Politician

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

96

1993

Faye Wattleton

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

97

1993

Rosalyn S. Yalow

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

100

1993

Dorothy Height

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

105

1993

Fannie Lou Hamer

Advocate

0% (0 of 2 votes)

106

1993

Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

114

1993

Mary Lyon

Educator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

127

1993

Madam C.J. Walker

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

11

1994

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

12

1994

Annie Jump Cannon

Astronomer

100% (3 of 3 votes)

40

1994

Sarah Winnemucca

Native American Icon

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

71

1994

Wilma Rudolph

Athlete

29.76% (25 of 84 votes)

73

1994

Oprah Winfrey

TV Personality

28.00% (217 of 775 votes)

74

1994

Bella Abzug

Advocate

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

77

1994

Geraldine Ferraro

U.S. Congressman

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

82

1994

Zora Neale Hurston

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

83

1994

Anne Hutchinson

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

91

1994

Susan La Flesche Picotte

Doctor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

98

1994

Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

99

1994

Ella Baker

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

109

1994

Ella Grasso

U.S. Governor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

111

1994

Nettie Stevens

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

1995

Pat Schroeder

U.S. Congressman

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

60

1995

Ann Bancroft

Explorer

32.05% (25 of 78 votes)

76

1995

Sandra Day O'Connor

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

23.08% (9 of 39 votes)

90

1995

Amelia Bloomer

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

126

1995

Ella Fitzgerald

Vocalist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

137

1995

Elizabeth Dole

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 5 votes)

138

1995

Margaret Fuller

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

146

1995

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

1996

Mother Cabrini

Religious Figure

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

1996

Edith Wharton

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

107

1996

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

121

1996

Louisa May Alcott

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

122

1996

Maria Tallchief

Dancer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

15

1998

Beverly Sills

Vocalist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

22

1998

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

Advocate

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

26

1998

Madeleine Albright

U.S. Secretary of State

56.52% (13 of 23 votes)

44

1998

Maya Angelou

Poet

43.75% (21 of 48 votes)

59

1998

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Philanthropist

32.26% (20 of 62 votes)

102

1998

Julia Ward Howe

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

103

1998

Chien-Shiung Wu

Scientist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

2000

Eudora Welty

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

21

2000

Anna Howard Shaw

Advocate

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

25

2000

Janet Reno

U.S. Attorney General

56.63% (47 of 83 votes)

37

2000

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Advocate

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

101

2000

Mary Walker

Doctor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

108

2000

Mary Dyer

Martyr

0% (0 of 0 votes)

123

2000

Ida Tarbell

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

136

2000

Crystal Eastman

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

2001

Lydia Maria Child

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

14

2001

Matilda Cuomo

Celebrity's Relative

100% (1 of 1 votes)

20

2001

Victoria Woodhull

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

32

2001

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady

53.04% (61 of 115 votes)

58

2001

Lucille Ball

Comedienne

32.53% (27 of 83 votes)

94

2001

Dorothy Day

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

125

2001

Althea Gibson

Tennis Player

0% (0 of 1 votes)

43

2002

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

44.74% (200 of 447 votes)

148

2002

Mercy Otis Warren

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

2003

Anne Sullivan

Educator

100% (1 of 1 votes)

48

2003

Sacagawea

Native American Icon

34.09% (15 of 44 votes)

78

2003

Patsy Mink

U.S. Congressman

12.50% (1 of 8 votes)

110

2003

Patricia Roberts Harris

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

124

2003

Dorothea Lange

Photographer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

2005

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

112

2005

Ruth Benedict

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

116

2007

Julia Child

Chef

0% (0 of 1 votes)

65

2009

Emma Lazarus

Poet

31.17% (24 of 77 votes)

113

2009

Louise Bourgeois

Artist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

6

2011

Lilly Ledbetter

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

23

2011

Donna Shalala

Politician

60.0% (6 of 10 votes)

29

2011

Barbara Mikulski

U.S. Senator

54.55% (6 of 11 votes)

69

2011

Billie Holiday

Vocalist

30.0% (6 of 20 votes)

115

2011

Coretta Scott King

Advocate

0% (0 of 5 votes)

7

2013

Kate Millett

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

54

2013

Nancy Pelosi

U.S. Congressman

33.09% (2638 of 7971 votes)

80

2013

Betty Ford

First Lady

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

104

2015

Dr. Tenley Albright

Figure Skater

0% (0 of 1 votes)

117

2015

Martha Graham

Choreographer

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

2017

Victoria Jackson

Comedienne

55.52% (156 of 281 votes)

34

2017

Sherry Lansing

Entrepreneur

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

118

2017

Clare Boothe Luce

Commentator

0% (0 of 1 votes)

119

2017

Lorraine Hansberry

Playwright

0% (0 of 1 votes)

120

2017

Alice Waters

Restaurateur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

17

2019

Gloria Allred

Attorney

100% (1 of 1 votes)

30

2019

Sonia Sotomayor

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

54.12% (46 of 85 votes)

61

2019

Angela Davis

Author

32.00% (16 of 50 votes)

79

2019

Jane Fonda

Actress

12.00% (1060 of 8835 votes)

10

2020

Henrietta Lacks

Oddity

100% (1 of 1 votes)

16

2020

Barbara Johns

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

46

2020

Aretha Franklin

Vocalist

37.21% (16 of 43 votes)

81

2020

Toni Morrison

Author

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

92

2020

Mary Church Terrell

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

27

2021

Michelle Obama

First Lady

55.58% (613 of 1103 votes)

35

2021

Octavia Butler

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

36

2021

Katherine Johnson

Mathematician

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

45

2021

Mia Hamm

Soccer Player

39.82% (45 of 113 votes)

93

2021

Joy Harjo

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

95

2021

Judy Chicago

Artist

0% (0 of 3 votes)

47

2023

Serena Williams

Tennis Player

36.02% (210 of 583 votes)

149

2023

Ruby Bridges

Advocate

0% (0 of 6 votes)