Dunn Loring is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,803 at the 2010 census. The Place 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 dated 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 roughly 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 land 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 pronounce office, but unexpectedly thereafter General Dunn died, and the take forward stagnated. During the Spanish–American War, the founding of Camp Russell A. Alger brought accumulation and wealth to Dunn Loring, and in the middle of the troops trained at Camp Alger was the highly praised 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 house into its current platting. Following World War II, the area began to develop as allowance of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

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

Dunn Loring is located in northeastern Fairfax County at 38°53′31″N 77°13′52″W / 38.89194°N 77.23111°W / 38.89194; -77.23111 (38.891982, −77.231150). It is bordered to the west by the town of Vienna, to the north by Tysons Corner, to the east by the Capital Beltway, and to the south by Interstate 66. Dunn Loring is 14 miles (23 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C.