Aleksanteri (Santeri) Mäkelä (26 March 1870, in Vimpeli – 1938) was a Finnish smallholder, writer and politician.
During the Finnish Civil War, he worked in the administration of Red Finland.
When the Red side lost the war, he fled to Soviet Russia and joined the Communist Party of Finland (SKP), which was founded by Finnish political refugees on 29 August 1918 in Moscow.
He settled in the Soviet Union for the rest of his life, working as a propagandist, as a journalist, as a teacher and in other functions.
[3] Mäkelä probably died in prison custody in the Soviet Union in 1938.