The invention discloses a monodispersed iron-based catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The catalyst comprises a carrier silicon dioxide and an active component iron, the carrier silicon dioxide has a mesoporous spherical particle structure, the carrier silicon dioxide covers the active component iron, and the active component iron is in nanometer granular shape and is distributed uniformly; the particle size of the carrier silicon dioxide is 140-160nm. In the preparation method, the pressure of CO2 is adjusted, the morphology of the catalyst is changed into uniform spherical shapes from disc shaped accumulation, so that the iron nanometer particles are in the spherical silicon dioxide and covered by silicon dioxide, sintering of the iron nanometer particles is prevented, and appearance of materials which are difficult to reduce is avoided. The iron-based catalyst is applied to preparation of alpha-olefin, a new process route of alpha-olefin is provided, synthetic gas is used as a raw material, and in the effect of the iron-based catalyst, alpha-olefin is directly synthesized. The iron-based catalyst has excellent performance, and alpha-olefin with a long chain has high selectivity.