Alfredo Nobre da Costa

Alfredo Nobre da Costa GCC, ComC, OMRI
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 28 August 1978 – 22 November 1978
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Preceded by	Mário Soares
Succeeded by	Carlos Mota Pinto
Minister of Industry and Technology
In office 25 March 1977 – 30 January 1978
Prime Minister	Mário Soares
Preceded by	António Sousa Gomes
Succeeded by	Carlos Melancia
Personal details
Born	(1923-09-10)10 September 1923 Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
Died	4 February 1996(1996-02-04) (aged 72) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama

Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, GCC, ComC, OMRI (Lisbon, Lapa, 10 September 1923 — Lisbon, 4 February 1996), commonly known just by Nobre da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɔbɾ(ɨ) dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]), was a Portuguese engineer and politician.

He was the only son of Alfredo Henrique Andresen da Costa (b. 4 November 1893), of Goan, Italian, French and/or Catalan, Danish and Portuguese ancestry, and wife Portuguese Maria Helena Nobre.

He graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico.

A moderate independent center-left politician, he was chosen by President António Ramalho Eanes to lead a government that would finish the four-year legislative term, which had been initiated in the 1976 Portuguese legislative election. His cabinet consisted of independents. However, it failed to gain a majority in the Assembly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned. He was replaced by Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto.

He married on 5 May 1951 Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama and had a single daughter Vera Maria Nobre da Costa (b. 5 February 1952).

Honours

• Commander of the Order of Christ, Portugal (15 September 1961)
• Grand-Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (9 April 1981)
• Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Italy (11 April 1985)