Variraptor (/ˈværɪræptər/ VARR-i-rap-tor; "Var thief") is a possibly dubious and potentially chimaeric genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of France.

Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux.

The generic name is derived from Latin Varus, referring to the Var River in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence region of southern France, and raptor meaning "thief".

The lack of overlapping parts would make it impossible to establish whether Pyroraptor was a junior subjective synonym but the presence of two different types of ulna in the southern French dromaeosaurid material would indicate two separate species.

[11] In 2023, assuming that Variraptor and Pyroraptor may be valid different species, both have been recovered as dromaeosaurs, though their phylogenetic affinites and those of other deinonychosaurian theropods except for Balaur bondoc were not well established.