Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram (born August 20, 1935) is an American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1995, Ingram succeeded her late husband as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ingram Industries, one of America's largest privately-held companies. She is the co-author of three books, including two biographies and a history of the performing arts in Nashville, Tennessee.

Martha Robinson Rivers was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of John Minott Rivers and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was educated at Ashley Hall in Charleston. She graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1957.^[1]

Upon graduation, she found employment at WCSC-AM/FM and WCSC-TV, a radio and television station, respectively, owned by her father.^[1]

Ingram was appointed by her husband as director of public affairs at Ingram Industries in 1979.^[1] After her husband's death in 1995, she became chairman and CEO.^[1]

Ingram is the co-author of three books. Her first book was a biography of her husband published in 2001, six years after his death.^[2] In her second book, published in 2004, Ingram wrote about the performing arts scene in Nashville during the Antebellum era.^[3] She argued that it was destroyed by the American Civil War and that it never fully recovered.^[3] Her third book, published in 2006, was a biography of Kenneth Schermerhorn, the music director of the Nashville Symphony.

On October 4, 1958, she married E. Bronson Ingram II (1931–1995) at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.^[1][4] Her husband was the son of business magnate Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr., grandson of Erskine B. Ingram, and great-grandson of Orrin Henry Ingram. They had three sons and a daughter:^[1]

• Orrin H. Ingram II (born 1960), the CEO of Ingram Industries and the chairman of Ingram Barge Company.
• John R. Ingram (born c. 1961), the chairman of the Ingram Content Group, Lightning Source, and Ingram Industries.
• David Bronson Ingram (born c. 1962), the chairman and president of Ingram Entertainment.^[15]
• Robin Ingram Patton.^[16]

• Rivers Ingram, Martha (2001). E. Bronson Ingram: Complete These Unfinished Tasks of Mine. Franklin, Tennessee: Hillsboro Press. ISBN 9781577362166. OCLC 48551547.
• Rivers Ingram, Martha; Kellogg, D. B. (2004). Apollo's Struggle: A Performing Arts Odyssey in the Athens of the South, Nashville, Tennessee. Franklin, Tennessee: Hillsboro Press. ISBN 9781577363101. OCLC 55675624.
• Rivers Ingram, Martha; Kellogg, D. B. (2006). Kenneth Schermerhorn: He Will Always Be the Music. Nashville, Tennessee: Nashville Symphony Association. OCLC 73171322.