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Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr. (4 May 1916 – 17 July 1999) was the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.

Ingalls was born in New York City and raised in Virginia. He received his A.B. in 1936, at Harvard majoring in Greek and Latin. and his A.M. in 1938 studying symbolic logic under Willard Van Orman Quine.

He was appointed a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows in 1939 after which he set off for Calcutta for the study of Navya-Nyāya[n 1] logic with Kalipada Tarkacharya (1938-1941).

His fellowship was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served as an Army code breaker decoding Japanese radio messages for the Office of Strategic Services (1942–44).

After the war, Ingalls returned to Harvard as Wales Professor of Sanskrit. He was particularly known for his translation and commentary in An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, which contains some 1,700 Sanskrit verses collected by a Buddhist abbot, Vidyākara, in Bengal around AD 1050. Ingalls was a student of the Indian grammarian Shivram Dattatray Joshi, and the teacher of many famous students of Sanskrit, such as Wendy Doniger, Diana Eck, John Stratton Hawley, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Robert Thurman, Sheldon Pollock, Indira Viswanathan Peterson, and Gary Tubb. He was renowned for the rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course. He was the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series from 1950 to 1983.

Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist Dan Ingalls and the author Rachel Ingalls.

He was also chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian studies and president of the American Oriental Society.