Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti (8 October 1881 in Jyväskylä – 3 August 1945 in Palo Alto, California)[1] was a Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat.

A firm supporter of democracy, he openly criticized Adolf Hitler at the outbreak of war.

[4] Holsti worked for newspapers in Hämeenlinna, Lahti and Helsinki together with his friend and school companion Joel Lehtonen.

The friendship ended abruptly when Holsti recognized himself as the satirically portrayed and fictive politician Rolf Idell in Lehtonen's book Sorron lapset (1924).

He died on 3 August 1945 at Palo Alto Hospital while undergoing surgery to repair a hernia.