Kingussie (/kɪŋˈjuːsi/ ⓘ king-YOO-see; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Ghiùthsaich pronounced [ˈkʲʰaun̪ˠə ˈʝuːs̪ɪç]) is a small town in the Badenoch and Strathspey ward of the Highland council area of Scotland.

The ruins of the early 18th-century Ruthven Barracks (Historic Environment Scotland; open to visitors at all times) lie near the original site of the village, which was moved to avoid the flood plain of the River Spey.

The Hanoverian Barracks were built on the site of Ruthven Castle, the seat of the Comyns, Lords of Badenoch in the Middle Ages.

Ranald Rankin (c.1785-1863), formerly an outlawed "heather priest"[7] for the Catholic Church in Scotland and the lyricist of the famous Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh Chrìosda, was assigned to Kingussie.

Rankin worked very hard to raise money to build the first post-Reformation Catholic parish church in Badenoch, but was transferred to Moidart in 1838, well before it was completed.

As a result, scholar Kent C. Duwe terms it a part of the "Gaelic diaspora, showing only slightly higher language incidence than the national mean.

There are records to suggest that there has been a secondary school in Kingussie since the time of the Columban missionaries,[13] but the current building dates from 1970.

[18] Kingussie is mentioned in Compton Mackenzie's book The Monarch of the Glen, on which the BBC TV series was loosely based.

Although the village is more famous for its Shinty club, it also has a successful football side which plays its games in the local Strathspey & Badenoch Welfare FA.