Smith Wigglesworth (10 June 1859 – 12 March 1947) was a British evangelist who was influential in the early history of Pentecostalism.

Smith Wigglesworth was born on 10 June 1859[1] in Menston, Yorkshire, England, to an impoverished family.

He was confirmed by a Bishop in the Church of England, baptized by immersion in a Baptist church and had grounding in Bible teaching in the Plymouth Brethren while learning the plumbing trade as an apprentice from a man in the Brethren movement.

[3] Wigglesworth married Mary Jane "Polly" Featherstone on 4 December 1882 at St Peter's church, Bradford.

[4] At the time of their marriage, she was a preacher with the Salvation Army and had come to the attention of General William Booth.

[5] Their grandson, Leslie Wigglesworth, after more than 20 years as a missionary in the Congo, served as the president of the Elim Pentecostal Church.

[6] Wigglesworth largely believed his ministerial success was due to his Baptism with the Holy Spirit.

All natural things in my life point exactly opposite to my being able to stand on the platform and preach the gospel.

He ministered in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the Pacific Islands, India, Ceylon, and several countries in Europe.

Wigglesworth described cancer as "a living evil spirit", and insisted that many diseases were "Satanic in origin".