Gerald Herman Peter Item (17 November 1960 – 23 May 2019) was an Indonesian swimmer.

He competed in numerous international sporting events representing Indonesia.

[1] Item also participated in the Southeast Asian Games of 1977, 1979 and 1981 and received a total of seventeen individual medals (not counting relay events), including five gold in 1979 alone.

He and his family left Indonesia in 2009 where he moved to Riverside, California and started coaching there.

He went to Coronado High School in San Diego, California, where he also became a swimmer.