Lawrence Okoye (born 6 October 1991) is a British track and field athlete and former American football defensive tackle.

Okoye is an honorary member of the St Peter's College JCR, and has an offer from the University of Oxford to study law which he is keen to take up in the future.

Okoye was arrested on 6 February 2019 as part of a reverse prostitution sting in Shelby County, Alabama, four days before the kickoff of the Birmingham Iron's inaugural season.

[6] Okoye began training full-time in the discus in September 2010 after a promising career as a junior rugby union player.

In 2020, his season best was 65.15 m in Magdeburg and in 2021, 65.56 m in Winchester before he won the discus event at 2021 European Athletics Team Championships.

In 2022 he won the Silver medal in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and Bronze in the European Championships in Munich.

[27] On 18 September 2017, Okoye signed to the practice squad of Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

He was put on the active roster and played his first CFL game[28] on 29 September against the Calgary Stampeders, recording one tackle.

[31] On 12 October 2018, Okoye signed for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football ahead of the inaugural season of the League in 2019.