Adelino Amaro da Costa

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Adelino Amaro da Costa, GCIH (Lisbon, 18 April 1943-Camarate, 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician.

He was a civil engineer by training.

After the Carnation Revolution, he founded, together with Diogo Freitas do Amaral, the Democratic Social Centre (CDS), a Christian Democrat political party predecessor of the current Popular Party.

After the victory of the Democratic Alliance, a coalition between the Social Democrats and his own party, in the Portuguese legislative election, 1980, he became the first civilian defence minister since the Carnation Revolution in 1980-01-03.

He died in a plane crash, together with his wife, the Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro and Sá Carneiro's partner, Snu Abecassis, while heading to Porto to take part in a rally for the Portuguese presidential election, 1981.