| Pyroraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Figured material of Pyroraptor restored as a generalized dromaeosaurid and an unenlagiine | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
| Genus: | †Pyroraptor Allain & Taquet, 2000 |
| Species: | †P. olympius
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pyroraptor olympius Allain & Taquet, 2000
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Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 72 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.