Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

A hamlet called Wezzo (today Wetzwil) was donated to the St. Gallen Abbey in 797.

In the Middle Ages, most of the land belonged to the churches of Zürich (Grossmünster and Fraumünster), but in 1412 Herrliberg was established as the place of a reeve.

Of the rest of the land, 19.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[5] It is located on the north bank of the Lake Zürich in the Pfannenstiel region.

The distance from the main square to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is 12 kilometers (7.5 mi).

It also includes the hamlets of Wetzwil, Breitwil (today known as Kittenmühle) and scattered farm houses.

In the summer there are regular boats to Zurich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG).

Famous organist, harpsichordist, conductor and Bach interpreter Karl Richter resided in Wetzwil, when not working in Munich with his Münchener Bachchor und Bachorchester.

Willem Sandberg, the Dutch typographer served an apprenticeship to a printer here.

In December 2011, tennis player Roger Federer and his wife Mirka purchased a 1.4 acre (5779 sq meters) development lot in the Laubhölzli area of Herrliberg, leading to speculation that they intend to build a home there.

[8] On 2 November 2014 Nikolaus Senn, the former co-director of Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, died in Herrliberg.