The Friars had a long and esteemed history in Oxford, listing many famous alumni, including the English statesman, Robert Grosseteste, also a theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, who became head of Greyfriars, Master of the School of Oxford from 1208, and the first Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

* In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, there appears a Cambridge Five analogue consisting of the Famous Five from Greyfriars School, including Harry Wharton who would become Big Brother, Bob Kim Cherry ( named after Kim Philby ) who would be also known as Harry Lime and subsequently M or Mother, Francis Alexander Waverly ( possibly formerly known as Frank Nugent ) and Sir John Night ( possibly formerly known as John Bull ).

* Herbert Vernon-Smith (' The Bounder '), fictional pupil at Greyfriars School

A map of Greyfriars School

Exterior views of Greyfriars School

" Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School " was broadcast as a BBC television series from 19th February 1951 to 22nd July 1961.

* Wingate, George Bernard-Captain of Greyfriars School ; Head Prefect ; Head of Games.

Unusually for Greyfriars School, he makes heavy use of hair oil, face wash, and perfume.

* Map of Greyfriars School

* Map of Location of Greyfriars School

in the episode that speculated on whether his form master at Greyfriars School, Horace Henry Samuel Quelch, became a secret agent.

Tom Brown's School Days was tremendously influential on the genre of British school novels, which began in the 19th century, and led to St. Trinians, Billy Bunter's Greyfriars, Mr Chips ' Brookfield, and Hogwarts.

He featured originally in stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys ' weekly story paper The Magnet first published in 1908, and has since appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.

In addition to stories set at Greyfriars School, his adventures also included many travel series, with trips to China, India, Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Hollywood and the South Seas.

The first of these, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, was published in September 1947.

Probably modeled on the Greyfriars stories and on Harry Wharton, Winker is a pupil of the Third Form of Greytowers Boarding School, he is known as the " wangler " of the school, constantly playing tricks and avoiding unpleasant school activities, much to the chagrin of his teacher Mr Clarence Creep ( known to the boys as Creepy ).

* Famous Five ( Greyfriars School ), schoolfellows of Billy Bunter at Greyfriars School

Robertson is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh and he now gives his name to the nearby William Robertson Wing of the Old Medical School buildings at the University of Edinburgh on Teviot Place, home to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

* Greyfriars School, in fiction

Each issue contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars School, a fictional public school located somewhere in Kent, and were written under the pen-name of Frank Richards.

Although born and dying in Greyfriars Parish, Edinburgh, he is almost solely linked to Dundee.

Greyfriars had one of the most distinctive buildings in Oxford ; it is the only flint-stone Norman-style building in the city, and its green spire is notably visible along the Iffley Road and from the University's Roger Bannister running track.

The Greyfriars Society was established in 1999 and is the official alumni organisation of Greyfriars.

The Minoritenkirche, formal name: Italienische Nationalkirche Maria Schnee ( English: Greyfriars Church or Minorite Church, formal " Italian National Church of Mary of the Snows ") is a church built in French Gothic style in the Altstadt or First District of Vienna, Austria.

He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.

The Greyfriars ' Chronicle says that Hooper was " sometime a white monk "; and in the sentence pronounced against him by Stephen Gardiner he is described as " olim monachus de Cliva Ordinis Cisterciensis ," i. e. of the Cistercian house of Cleeve Abbey in Somerset.

He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.

He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

This is one of the few remnants of a house of the Greyfriars to have survived in Scotland.

He was born in Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, died at Catrine, Ayrshire, and is interred at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.

He died in Edinburgh at the age of 71, and is buried there in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

This stands in front of the " Greyfriars Bobby's Bar ", which is located near the south ( main ) entrance to Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Vernon is startlingly similar to Vernon-Smith in appearance, which allows a number of dramatic situations to develop before Vernon ’ s real purpose in coming to Greyfriars is revealed.

Has spent many years working on a magnum opus on the history of Greyfriars, which is often referred to as ' Quelchy's tosh ', and disappears periodically to work on it.

" asked Horace Coker ) and has a style of playing soccer and cricket that is a menace to his own team mates ; yet is completely convinced that he is the best scholar and sportsman at Greyfriars.

Fishy is a rampant capitalist, who makes the most of his limited opportunities for free enterprise at Greyfriars, often with moneymaking schemes that come unstuck.

Penfold is a keen writer of verse, much of which was featured in the Magnet in a regular feature column titled The Greyfriars Rhymester.

He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.

* Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English Franciscan friary

After Robert the Bruce killed John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries, the Earl of Buchan joined the English side in the Scottish Wars of Independence.

The post-1979 united congregation continues to use Greyfriars Kirk, with Sunday services in English and in Scottish Gaelic.