Samuel Ashworth (15 January 1825 – 2 February 1871) was an English co-operative movement organiser, flannel weaver, shop worker, and founding member of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.

In 1844 Ashworth was, alongside his father, a founding member of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.

In 1847 he moved to Minster Lovell to work as a farmer as part of the Chartist Land Plan but after six months he sold his plot and returned to Rochdale and his previous employment.

[1] In 1866 Ashworth left the Rochdale Pioneers to become chief buyer and salesman of the North of England Co-operative Wholesale Society (later the English Co-operative Wholesale Society).

Ashworth died on 2 February 1871, aged 46, following a lengthy illness and was buried in Rochdale cemetery.