Abel Fontoura da Costa (9 December 1869 – 7 December 1940) was a Portuguese colonial administrator, a military officer, a politician and a scientist.

[1] He attended the Royal Military College and enlisted into the Navy in 1887.

In 1901, he took part in a commission that marked the boundary between Portuguese Angola and Congo Free State.

[2][1] He was governor of Cape Verde from 11 September 1915 until 9 March 1918.

[3] He was Minister of Agriculture in 1923, in the government of António Maria da Silva.