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The surname was originally spelled "van Rosenvelt". Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt, the ancestor of the Roosevelt family was originally Dutch.
Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (1879–1962) was a French-born American filmmaker and resort hotel manager of American origin. He was born in Paris to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris. He won a gold medal in rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with the French team.

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