Richard Hoagland, a man of many talents ;-)
Not many people know before he promoted the face on Mars Richard was a State Department diplomat:
"An irascible scoundrel, but everyone loved him," said Richard Hoagland, a State Department envoy to Afghanistan in the early 1990s. "He embodied the Afghan national characteristic of openness, frankness, independence."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/world/world4.html