Provided is a door handle for a vehicle that can eliminate wiring between a circuit mounted on a vehicle including a door panel having the vehicle door handle and a circuit mounted within this door handle, so that the door handle can be provided as an independent unit. The door handle for a vehicle, is configured to authenticate a mobile device carried by a user through wireless communication between this mobile device and the vehicle and to control locking/unlocking of a vehicle door based on detection of presence/absence of an operation by the user of commanding a predetermined locking/unlocking operation. The door handle includes an operation detecting unit for detecting an operation on the vehicle door handle as an operation commanding locking/unlocking to the vehicle, a transmitter antenna having sensitivity in a predetermined frequency range, a transmitter unit configured to modulate result of detection by said operation detecting unit with using a carrier wave having the predetermined frequency range and transmitting the detection result to the vehicle via said transmitter antenna, a battery for supplying power to the operation detecting unit and the transmitter unit, and a housing configured to accommodate therein the operation detecting unit, the transmitter antenna, the transmitter unit and the battery altogether, without any wires extending to the outside of the housing.