Gerald Paul Lindgren (born March 9, 1946) is an American track and field runner who set many long-standing high school and national records in the United States.

Among his other records he established that year was his time of 8:40.0 in an indoor 2-mile (3.2 km) race that shattered the previous U.S. national high school mark by an incredible 43 seconds; it was the fastest high school 2-mile (3.2 km) time ever run indoors until February 16, 2013, when Edward Cheserek ran 8:39.15 at the Millrose Games.

On July 25, 1964, Lindgren outran two seasoned Soviet runners, Leonid Ivanov and Anatoly Dutov to win the 10,000 m event in the US-USSR Track Meet in Los Angeles.

Lindgren was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1964,[5] and won the 10,000 meter race at the 1964 Olympic Trials.

[6] In the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he finished ninth in the 10,000 meters (m) behind gold medalist Billy Mills after having sprained an ankle during training.

But perhaps Lindgren's greatest race came during a May 1966 NCAA Regional meet at age 20, in the 3-mile run on a dirt track during a cold, windy day in Seattle.