Adding lists of columns to matrices

I’m creating peer reviews where peers need to accredit each others skills. To do this I want to use matrices that look something like this:

Who excelled in the following skills:

                Bob        Eva        Henry       Jim

Skill 1        0             0              0             0

Skill 2        0             0              0             0

Skill 3        0             0              0             0

Now to do this once with a few names and columns is not really a problem. But since I need to do this with quite a large list of skills (~100). I want to divide them into categories and use multiple matrices to cover all of them. The problem I’m having is that for each matrix I need to fill in the same list of names by hand. Which becomes really annoying very fast. My question is: Is there a way to copy past a list of names into the columns so that I don’t need to do this by hand.

Thanks in advance!