Madjid Niroumand (Persian: مجید نیرومند‎) was an Iranian child actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Amiro in Amir Naderi's The Runner (1984), which is regarded as one of the seminal films in modern Iranian cinema. The director discovered him after a six-month search for a suitable lead, having spotted Niroumand in a newspaper photograph of four youngsters who won a race. Niroumand's life was portrayed in the 2016 documentary A Boy's Own Story.