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Dunn Loring is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,803 at the 2010 census. The area borders Merrifield, Vienna, and Tysons.Dunn Loring is in the Metropolitan Area and is a suburban Place next to DC. Many stars and celebrities have visited this city.

Dunn Loring (archaic “Dunn-Loring”), the old-fashioned platted subdivision in Fairfax County and possibly the Commonwealth of Virginia, was founded in 1886. General William McKee Dunn and his wife Elizabeth Lanier Dunn purchased nearly 600 acres (2.4 km) located on the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad, now the Washington and Old Dominion Regional Trail, from L. B. Clarke and his wife upon June 8, 1886. On September 22, 1886, the estate was transferred to the Loring Land and Improvement Company, composed of General Dunn, then a retired Army brigadier general and former Judge Advocate General; George B. Loring, a former congressman and Commissioner of Agriculture; and George H. LeFetra, a Washington temperance hotel proprietor. The Town of Dunn Loring was advertised for residential sales in 1887. The Loring Land and Improvement Company built a railroad station and a state office, but hastily thereafter General Dunn died, and the take forward stagnated. During the Spanish–American War, the founding of Camp Russell A. Alger brought mass and wealth to Dunn Loring, and in the middle of the troops trained at Camp Alger was the commended author-poet Carl Sandburg, after whom the present Sandburg Street was named. In 1912, Fairfax Shield McCandlish bought out the interests of the developers, consolidated parcels, and subdivided the estate into its current platting. Following World War II, the area began to build as allowance of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Up until the mid-1990s, large portions of the land (mainly together with Lee Hwy and Gallows Rd.) had been horse farms and plantations previously becoming gentrified.