Provided is a wire gripper that can make it easier to lift its tip being grasped by fingers. A wire gripper 10 includes: a wire gripper body member 12 including a fixed gripping body 20 having a linear body pressing portion 24; an operating member 14 pivotably mounted to the wire gripper body member 12 through a support shaft 70; a movable gripping body member 16 including a linear body holding portion 22 that pivotally moves toward the linear body pressing portion 24 of the fixed gripping body 20 in accordance with the pivotal movement of the operating member 14; and a coupling member 18 coupled to the operating member 14 through a rotary shaft 72 for coupling member for pivotally moving the operating member 14. The coupling member 18 includes a ring portion 130 provided at the backward end of an elongate coupling member body 80. The ring portion 130 is bent at a prescribed angle in the bending region 100 relative to a reference plane Pyz including a lateral axis along which the linear body pressing portion 24 and the linear body holding portion 22 extend.