The present invention aims to provide the disposable wearing article improved so that the front and rear waist regions can be easily peeled off from each other and there is no apprehension that the wearer might experience any uncomfortable feeling.A disposable wearing diaper (10) includes a front panel section (16) and a rear panel section (17) facing each other so as to define respective waist regions. The rear panel section (17) overlaps the outer side of the front panel section (16) and these front and rear panel sections (16, 17) are connected to each other along transversely opposite side edges (18) of the respective panel sections. The disposable diaper (10) has finger-grips (40) provided at positions on an upper end of the rear panel section (17) at which the rear panel section (17) overlap the front panel section (16). The finger-grip (40) comprises a proximal zone (41) and a distal zone (42) extending from the proximal zone (41) which is contiguous to the rear panel section (17) and the distal zone (42) is placed aside with respect to the proximal zone (41) toward a lower end (22) of the rear panel section (17).
