Dixon Edward Hoste (23 July 1861 – 11 May 1946) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and the longest lived of the Cambridge Seven.

Hoste is credited with making the Chinese churches apply the indigenous principles of self-government, self-support, and self-propagation.

Because of ill-health Mr Hoste visited England in 1896 and then spent some time in Australia before returning to China.

During his appointment as general director of the China Inland Mission, he was based in Shanghai, and after internment there by the Japanese Army from 1944 to 1945, returned to England, where he died in 1946 at the Mildmay Nursing Home.

The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts moulded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.