List of female chess players by peak FIDE rating Update/Request: The answer currently doesn't include countries and other trivia like in the original one. Please consider posting an answer like this or editing current answer to include these. However, I consider the current answer complete even with this update. This update/request is just some additional thing.

There is a Wikipedia list is for all of the top-rated FIDE chess players. But where is the list of female chess players by peak FIDE rating?
I'll start:
1 - Hungary - Judit Polgar - 2735 - 2005-07 -   1976 - N/A
The raw data which could be used to extract this information is available on the FIDE website (from 2001) and the Olimpbase website (before 2001). What you will need to do is clean the data (the older the data the more &quot;dirty&quot; it is), construct a relational database and insert the data. Then you will be able to use SQL to search the database for the data you want.
Having done this, here is a list of the top female players of all time above 2500 appearing in the periodic FIDE rating lists (i.e. not the live list, because that data is not available to us)
FullName    Max Period

Polgar, Judit 2735 7/2005, 10/2005
Hou, Yifan 2686 3/2015, 5/2015
Koneru, Humpy 2623 7/2009
Muzychuk, Anna 2606 7/2012, 8/2012
Ju, Wenjun 2604 3/2017
Goryachkina, Aleksandra 2593 2/2021
Kosintseva, Tatiana 2581 11/2020
Zhao, Xue 2579 9/2013, 10/2013
Polgar, Zsuzsa 2577 1/2005 -&gt;
Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2576 11/2010
Xie, Jun 2574 1/2008 -&gt;
Dzagnidze, Nana 2573 6/2015 - 10/2015
Muzychuk, Mariya 2563 3/2016, 4-6/2019
Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2561 1/2018, 2/2018
Lahno, Kateryna 2560 12/2018 - 2/2019
Galliamova, Alisa 2560 7/1998
Stefanova, Antoaneta 2560 1/2003, 5-7/2010
Chiburdanidze, Maia 2560 1/1988
Cramling, Pia 2550 10/2008
Gunina, Valentina 2548 6-7/2015
Zhu, Chen 2548 1/2008
Lei, Tingjie 2545 3/2018
Harika, Dronavalli 2543 11-12/2016
Cmilyte, Viktorija 2542 6/2017
Sebag, Marie 2537 3/2013
Zatonskih, Anna 2537 5/2011
Khotenashvili, Bela 2531 6/2013
Tan, Zhongyi 2530 3-4/2016
Batsiashvili, Nino 2528 3/2018
Danielian, Elina 2521 7/2011
Ioseliani, Nana 2520 7/1977
Saduakassova, Dinara 2519 1/2020
Xu, Yuhua 2517 4/2006 - 7/2007
Paehtz, Elisabeth 2513 9-10/2018
Wang, Lei 2512 10/2001
Hoang, Thanh Trang 2511 11/2013 - 2/2014
Pogonina, Natalija 2508 7/2014
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 2507 7/2001
Zhu, Jiner 2507 10/2019
Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2506 7/2009
Wang, Pin 2506 10/2000
Polgar, Sofia 2505 7/1998
Girya, Olga 2505 9/2017
Socko, Monika 2505 4/2008
Ruan, Lufei 2503 1/2014
Mkrtchian, Lilit 2503 1-3/2010
Matveeva, Svetlana 2502 1/2004
Krush, Irina 2502 10-11/2013
Ushenina, Anna 2502 7/2007
Qin, Kanying 2501 7/2000
Skripchenko, Almira 2501 1-4/2003