| Nobre da Costa | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Portugal | |
| In office 28 August 1978 – 22 November 1978 (0 years, 86 days) |
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| President | António Ramalho Eanes |
| Preceded by | Mário Soares |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Mota Pinto |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 10, 1923 Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 4 February 1996 (aged 72) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama |
Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, GCC (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 Portuguese legislative election, 1976. 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).