Sir James Charles Inglis (9 September 1851 – 19 December 1911) was a British civil engineer.

He was tasked with replacing a number of Isembard Kingdom Brunel's large timber viaducts in Cornwall with new bridges of steel and stone.

He was appointed a major in that corps on 24 June 1893, by which time he was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

[8] He was knighted by King George V at St James's Palace on 23 February 1911 by which point he was the General Manager of the Great Western Railway.

[9] Inglis died on 19 December that year and is buried at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cemetery, Hanwell in London.