diff --git a/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py b/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
index 2813c370c..f03a86355 100644
--- a/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
+++ b/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ def _parse_element(datasource_xml: ET.Element, ns: dict) -> tuple:
 
         project_id = None
         project_name = None
+        project = None
         project_elem = datasource_xml.find(".//t:project", namespaces=ns)
         if project_elem is not None:
             project = ProjectItem.from_xml(project_elem, ns)
@@ -542,6 +543,7 @@ def _parse_element(datasource_xml: ET.Element, ns: dict) -> tuple:
             project_name = project_elem.get("name", None)
 
         owner_id = None
+        owner = None
         owner_elem = datasource_xml.find(".//t:owner", namespaces=ns)
         if owner_elem is not None:
             owner = UserItem.from_xml(owner_elem, ns)
diff --git a/test/assets/datasource_get_no_owner.xml b/test/assets/datasource_get_no_owner.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a0149d5ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/assets/datasource_get_no_owner.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
+    <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="2" />
+    <datasources>
+        <datasource id="e76a1461-3b1d-4588-bf1b-17551a879ad9" name="SampleDS" size="4096" contentUrl="SampleDS" description="SampleDsDescription" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-11T21:22:40Z" updatedAt="2016-08-11T21:34:17Z" encryptExtracts="false" hasExtracts="true" useRemoteQueryAgent="false" webpageUrl="https://web.com">
+            <tags />
+        </datasource>
+        <datasource id="9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb" name="Sample datasource" description="description Sample" size="10240" contentUrl="Sampledatasource" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" updatedAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" encryptExtracts="true" hasExtracts="false" useRemoteQueryAgent="true" webpageUrl="https://page.com">
+            <tags>
+                <tag label="world" />
+                <tag label="indicators" />
+                <tag label="sample" />
+            </tags>
+        </datasource>
+    </datasources>
+</tsResponse>
diff --git a/test/test_datasource.py b/test/test_datasource.py
index e9635874d..6870d319b 100644
--- a/test/test_datasource.py
+++ b/test/test_datasource.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 GET_EMPTY_XML = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_get_empty.xml"
 GET_BY_ID_XML = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_get_by_id.xml"
 GET_XML_ALL_FIELDS = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_get_all_fields.xml"
+GET_NO_OWNER = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_get_no_owner.xml"
 POPULATE_CONNECTIONS_XML = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_populate_connections.xml"
 POPULATE_PERMISSIONS_XML = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_populate_permissions.xml"
 PUBLISH_XML = TEST_ASSET_DIR / "datasource_publish.xml"
@@ -850,3 +851,13 @@ def test_get_datasource_all_fields(server) -> None:
     assert datasources[0].owner.last_login == parse_datetime("2025-02-04T06:39:20Z")
     assert datasources[0].owner.name == "bob@example.com"
     assert datasources[0].owner.site_role == "SiteAdministratorCreator"
+
+
+def test_get_datasource_no_owner(server: TSC.Server) -> None:
+    with requests_mock.mock() as m:
+        m.get(server.datasources.baseurl, text=GET_NO_OWNER.read_text())
+        datasources, _ = server.datasources.get()
+
+    datasource = datasources[0]
+    assert datasource.owner is None
+    assert datasource.project is None