Umro Ayyar or Amar Ayyar is a fictional character, an ayyār,^{[lower-alpha 1]} in Tilism-e-Hoshruba, an Urdu recension of the Islamic epic Hamzanama (originally in Persian). He was first written about during the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar and many stories and novels have been written about him since.^[1][2]

Modern Urdu authors like Zaheer Ahmed,^[3] Mazhar Kaleem,^[4] Safdar Shaheen and Akhter Rizvi^[5] have written various different stories about the character.

Umro Ayyar is a thief and most famous character of the Hamzanama after Amir Hamza, the titular hero of the epic. He's known for his cleverness and theft in the city 'Tilism-e-Hoshruba'. His life is full of adventure. It is his habit to travel around the world and to face evils and bad spirits. Umro has a magical zambeel (bag)^[6] from which he can extract whatever he wants. He mostly uses it to show off and to kill evil. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor.