The name of the famous person of India who returned the Knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was:

1 The atrocities in Punjab in 1919 refer primarily to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which occurred on April 13, 1919. 2 In protest against this massacre and the subsequent martial law imposed in Punjab, several prominent Indians renounced titles conferred upon them by the British Government. 3 Rabindra Nath Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore), the renowned poet and Nobel laureate, renounced his Knighthood in a letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, dated May 30, 1919. 4 Tej Bahadur Sapru, Ashutosh Mukherjee, and Syed Ahmad Khan (who died in 1898) were prominent figures, but it was Tagore who famously returned his Knighthood in response to the 1919 Punjab atrocities.