Identifying patterns in life history strategies has proven essential to predict how macro-organisms respond to disturbances and stressors. Like macro-organisms, microorganisms display a wide range of growth, cell division and reproduction patterns, but, unlike for macro-organisms, we know little of what determinants structure microorganism life history variation. We used four life history traits that determine growth and reproduction - the von Bertalanffy growth rate, cell length at birth, maximum length, and length at cell division - of 13 microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, a protist and plant) to parameterise a dynamic energy budget integral projection model for each species to calculate its generation time, mean lifetime reproductive success, and population growth rate. Inputting all values into a phylogenetically informed principal component analysis, we show that 91% of microorganism life-history variation falls along two independent axes. Like macro-organisms, we find a fast-slow pace of life continuum, including faster-growing, shorter-lived microorganisms at one end, and slower-growing, longer-lived microorganisms at the other. Unlike macro-organisms, we find a second, size-at-life-stage axis, with microorganisms with shorter birth, division and maximum cell length at one end, and microorganisms with longer lengths at the other. We advocate that this pilot study of structuring microorganism life history variation can ignite future life history research to understand the diversity of microorganismal phenotypes. Such endeavours can aid predictions on how microorganisms respond to disturbances, especially if more complex cell growth and division processes are incorporated.