Absolutely - I provide services in a fairly small community and every SEO company is using web 2.0 links to help rank their clients. It is so...
The anchor text let's the reader & Google know what the content on the other side of the link is about.
Surfer SEO can do something similar in their Content Planner with a domain level search. Not 100% what you are looking for, but pretty darn close...
I would just ensure that your H1s are semantically about the same topic. Best not to confuse Google :)
Separate names with a comma.