Hall of Fame Inductees
The National Rivers Hall of Fame lets you capture the drama of river people from all across America. Explore our nation's rivers in the keelboat audio exhibit, enjoy the steamboat invention theater, then steer barges in a modern-day towboat pilothouse simulator.
Hall of Fame inductees are the pioneers, the explorers and the artists who are no longer living. They were movers and shakers from the days gone by and the recent past. These men and women made significant contributions related to America's rivers and river industries, which is why we honor them.
The National Achievement Award is the highest tribute paid to a living person.
The Builders
The Pathfinders
The River People
- Betty Blake
- John W. Cannon
- Captain Mary Becker Greene
- Captain Daniel Smith Harris
- Captain Thomas P. Leathers
- Black Hawk
- Mary Miller
- Captain Grant Marsh
- Diamond Jo Reynolds
- Nicholas J. Roosevelt
- Captain Isaiah Sellers
- Captain John Streckfus
- Captain Ernest E. Wagner
- Captain Callie Leach French
- Captain Joseph La Barge
- Phillip Suiter
- Orrin Ingram and the Ingram Family
- Abraham Lincoln
- Auguste & Pierre Chouteau
The Artists, Writers, and Musicians
- Louis Armstrong
- John James Audubon
- Richard Bissell
- Karl Bodmer
- Henry Bosse
- J. P. Doremus
- Stephen Collins Foster
- E. W. Gould
- Constance Lindsay Skinner
- Mark Twain
- Captain Frederick Way, Jr.
- Ben Lucien Burman
- George Catlin
- Fate Marable
- George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)
- Louis C. Hunter
- Dr. William Petersen, Steamboat Bill
- Showboat Team
