Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, GCC, ComC, OMRI (Lisbon, 10 September 1923 – Lisbon, 1 April 1996), commonly known as Nobre da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation::), was a Portuguese engineer and politician.

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 *embly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned. He was replaced by Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Honours
• 4 References

Early life

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

He graduated from Ins*uto Superior Técnico.

Personal life

He married Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama on 5 May 1951 and had a single daughter, Vera Maria Nobre da Costa (born 5 February 1952). He died in 1996 after a long illness. At the time of his death he held the position of chairman at the engineering firm EFACEC.

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)

References